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Not to mention that some of that smoke is coming from other jurisdictions (Canada) that we can't control.

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I mean America could always liberate Canada…

Well software job salaries would probably go up.

No, we'd get the Puerto Rico treatment.

Would that mean we'd get to have Freedom Bacon alongside the Freedom Fries?

USA can control half the World when they want to impose profit-making sanctions against Huawei, or to increase copyright terms; I can't see how they couldn't do something on air pollution if they wished to.

Find a way to make it make absurd profits for USA business and it'll happen.

Aside from that, is Canadian produced air pollution a problem in USA?

The wildfire smoke affected air quality for much for the north eastern US for a few weeks this year.

What is the solution to that? Forcing Canada to do more controlled burns?

Does the reverse not happen in the Northern of the States of USA? Are approaches better in USA, do you do more controlled burns? Is wind direction generally Southerly along the border?

Along the New York / Canadian border, yes the wind is generally southerly and easterly, very rarely are you getting the wind to go up from new york and into Canada. Since the fires were in Ontario, that wind brought it over Lake Ontario, and down across new york and down the coast.

Thanks for the info.

It affected other parts of the US for a lot longer than that. On the upside, the sunsets this summer were absolutely stunning.

> Forcing Canada to do more controlled burns?

In theory, we napalm and some F-16s laying around somewhere. It would be a very American solution to the problem. Doubly so if we avoid doing controlled burns in our territory.

It was bad for a week or so here in Kansas. Like you could see the haze easily against a building/tree 1/4 mile away.

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