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Breakfast links: Regional air quality in unhealthy zone due to Canadian wildfires

LinksBy Judith Bernholc (Contributor) June 8, 2023

  • Region’s air quality worsens as smoke from the Canadian wildfires drifts down

    Outdoor activities at DC Public Schools and Fairfax County Public Schools were canceled on Wednesday, and are expected to be canceled again today as air quality worsens. Air quality across the region is currently rated Code Red, Purple, or Maroon — unhealthy for all and hazardous. While many residents of DC already dealt with air quality pollutants prior to this situation, an increase in wildfires due to climate change could further exacerbate the issue.  (Colleen Grablick / DCist, Malcom Feguson / Washingtonian, Capital Weather Gang, DC Public Schools)  

  • Chesapeake Bay Watershed earns C in biannual report card

    While the biannual report card, the Chesapeake Bay and Watershed Report Card from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES), shows some improvements in metrics like water clarity - 12% to 20% from 2021 to 2022, there is still a longer-term decline in the region overall. The new report also includes a new environmental justice index developed by the CDC which exposed substantial environmental justice disparities across Maryland and Virginia.  (Sarah Y. Kim / DCist)  

  • Minnesota Commons affordable housing deal falls through, leaving tenants in limbo

    Financing dried up for the NFP Foundation, a local affordable housing nonprofit that was slated to purchase Minnesota Commons by tenant choice. NFP had promised to protect the building’s rent stabilization following renovations. The tenants of Minnesota Commons are now in limbo as the building appears likely to sell to a company with a business model focused on buying out tenants in rent-stabilized buildings and replacing them with housing voucher holders, as vouchers command higher rents. (Disclosure: Pamela Lee, a member of the GGWash board of directors, is employed by NFP.)  (Morgan Baskin / DCist)  

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