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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCanadian wildfire smoke ruining Americans' summer - NOT the Onion!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canadian-wildfire-smoke-ruining-americans-summer-1.7580738Canadian 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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Canadian wildfire smoke ruining Americans' summer - NOT the Onion! (Original Post)
Tripper11
Jul 9
OP
No kidding! And not a damned word of thanks from slobby for Mexico's help with fires in CA!
SheltieLover
Jul 9
#3
And yet not a word about the foul stench of our President and his insane policies
Marie Marie
Jul 9
#6
2naSalit
(97,358 posts)1. Call the...
Whaaambulance!
malaise
(286,915 posts)8. Does ICE out fires?
Or just melt? 😀
Ocelot II
(126,132 posts)2. How embarrassing! What's Canada supposed to do, reverse the wind?
They dont want wildfires either and they are fighting them. Maybe these dickwads should volunteer to help?
SheltieLover
(71,926 posts)3. No kidding! And not a damned word of thanks from slobby for Mexico's help with fires in CA!

Botany
(74,807 posts)4. It was all over Columbus and central Oh yesterday
A yellow glow could be seen as all over in the afternoon as the sunlight hit the particles.
fargone
(406 posts)5. Stauber's district had its own smoke producing wildfires this year
Marie Marie
(10,356 posts)6. And yet not a word about the foul stench of our President and his insane policies
destroying the lives of people all around the globe.
Spazito
(55,200 posts)7. Geez, there is stupid and then there is...
fucking stupid and this bunch is in the latter group.