Oregon’s air quality is so far beyond ‘hazardous’ that no one knows what it means for health

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By Joseph WintersSep 11, 2020, 2:37 pm240 pts
As wildfires rage across much of California and the Pacific Northwest, smoke continues to clog the air and tinge the sky with apocalyptic reds and oranges. In some parts of Oregon this week, the air got so smoky that it maxed out the scale used by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to measure hazardous…

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