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Bay Area Enacts Two-Day Spare the Air Alert Through Thanksgiving With Wood-Burning Ban

A new, lower PM2.5 threshold adopted in October is triggering earlier no-burn days to reduce health harms from wood smoke.

Multi-State Air Quality Alerts Urge Drivers to Stay Off Roads as Ozone, Smoke Spike