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The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy issued southeast Michigan's sixth air quality advisory of the season on Saturday due to elevated levels of fine particulate matter in the air from Canadian wildfires.
Air quality will become unhealthy for some beginning Sunday through Monday morning. Canadian wildfire smoke returns which will create hazy skies as well.
You’re not imagining that campfire smell — thick smoke from Canadian wildfires has settled over Minnesota again, with air quality now unhealthy for everyone.
The Canadian government is not doing enough to support Indigenous people suffering from 2025’s wildfires, according to the Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation.
Six members of Congress from Wisconsin and Minnesota have asked Canada to say how it plans to tackle the blazes and reduce the haze billowing south.
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Wildfire smoke from Canada will be moving into Michigan from Saturday to Monday, creating poor air quality across the state.
Six Republican Congress members callously urged Canada to take “proper action” to mitigate smoke wafting into the U.S.
The amount of land burned this year is on pace to be the most since 1994, as 100 blazes roared on Friday across the central Canadian province.
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew was critical of a letter sent by six US lawmakers concerned over wildfire smoke drifting south.
Our weekend will also be dominated by poor air quality due to wildfire smoke returning from the Canadian wildfires. Our entire region is under an Air Quality Alert until 9 am Monday