{"id":35483,"date":"2023-06-28T17:49:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T17:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=35483"},"modified":"2023-06-28T17:50:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T17:50:09","slug":"usa-over-80m-people-under-air-quality-alerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/06\/28\/usa-over-80m-people-under-air-quality-alerts\/","title":{"rendered":"USA: Over 80m people under air quality alerts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A code orange air quality has been issued for Delaware due to smoke from the Canadian wildfires, with people in sensitive groups advised to limit time outdoors.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An update from the Delaware department of natural resources and environmental control (DNREC) posted Wednesday morning reads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At this time, light west-northwesterly winds are expected to transport smoke into the First State between mid-morning and early afternoon as a trough of low pressure departs to the east.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DelawareDNREC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DelawareDNREC<\/a> says today is a Code Orange Air Quality Action Day. Particulate (PM 2.5) concentrations may be unhealthy for sensitive groups, such as children, seniors, or those with asthma, heart or lung diseases. Avoid strenuous activity outdoors. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zUNojM9cFg\">https:\/\/t.co\/zUNojM9cFg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z57VtwzDZP\">pic.twitter.com\/z57VtwzDZP<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Delaware Emergency Management Agency (DEMA) (@DelawareEMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DelawareEMA\/status\/1673994805301444617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A code orange air quality has been issued for Delaware due to smoke from the Canadian wildfires, with people in sensitive groups advised to limit time outdoors. An update from the Delaware department of natural resources and environmental control (DNREC) posted Wednesday morning reads: At this time, light west-northwesterly winds are expected to transport smoke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":35484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461,12],"tags":[10184,11017,7823,10309,5278,11179,5350,9085],"class_list":["post-35483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-world-news","tag-air-quality","tag-canadian","tag-code","tag-delaware","tag-quality","tag-smoke","tag-twitter","tag-weather"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}