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Tripper11

(4,396 posts)
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 02:27 PM Jul 9

Canadian wildfire smoke ruining Americans' summer - NOT the Onion!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canadian-wildfire-smoke-ruining-americans-summer-1.7580738

Canadian wildfire smoke is travelling south and making it difficult for some Americans to enjoy their summer, according to a letter from six members of Congress to Canada's U.S. ambassador.

"We write to you today on behalf of our constituents who have had to deal with suffocating Canadian wildfire smoke filling the air to begin the summer," begins the letter, published Monday and addressed to Ambassador Kirsten Hillman.

It was signed by Republican House representatives Tom Tiffany and Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin and Brad Finstad, Michelle Fischbach, Pete Stauber and Tom Emmer of Minnesota.

"In our neck of the woods, summer months are the best time of the year to spend time outdoors recreating, enjoying time with family, and creating new memories, but this wildfire smoke makes it difficult to do all those things," says the letter, which can be read in full here.

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Ocelot II

(126,104 posts)
2. How embarrassing! What's Canada supposed to do, reverse the wind?
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 02:34 PM
Jul 9

They don’t want wildfires either and they are fighting them. Maybe these dickwads should volunteer to help?

Botany

(74,796 posts)
4. It was all over Columbus and central Oh yesterday
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 02:47 PM
Jul 9

A yellow glow could be seen as all over in the afternoon as the sunlight hit the particles.

Marie Marie

(10,355 posts)
6. And yet not a word about the foul stench of our President and his insane policies
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 04:22 PM
Jul 9

destroying the lives of people all around the globe.

Spazito

(55,200 posts)
7. Geez, there is stupid and then there is...
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 04:25 PM
Jul 9

fucking stupid and this bunch is in the latter group.

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