“We have many Republican members of Congress who are climate deniers or don’t believe that we need legislation to combat climate change.
“The silver lining, if there ever is a silver lining in these types of disastrous events, is that it starts to impact people who are otherwise not impacted on a daily basis,” he said in an interview outside the Capitol. The cover of the New York Post on Thursday featured a photo of the Manhattan skyline shrouded in a Venusian yellow haze with the headline “Blame Canada!” The paper described the smog as “the unhealthiest thing to come out of Canada since poutine” under a banner of Canadian flags and the tagline “Eh!pocalypse Now.”Ĭongressman Dan Goldman, who represents Lower Manhattan, told The Globe and Mail that he hoped the crisis would push legislators to take more action on climate change. At one point Thursday morning, all flights arriving at Philadelphia’s airport were stopped because of poor visibility, while flights into New York’s LaGuardia were delayed. The National Zoo closed down for the day “for the safety of our animals, our staff and our guests.” The White House postponed an outdoor event marking Pride Month.īoth New York and Philadelphia, which at times rated as the cities with the world’s worst air quality, postponed baseball games Wednesday night. capital advised residents to wear KN95 masks outside and stay indoors as much as possible, as the scent of campfire permeated city streets. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty ImagesĪfter a record-breaking day for poor air quality in New York City Wednesday – when the U.S.’s largest city hit 484 on the Air Quality Index – the smog largely moved south Thursday, pushing Washington’s quality to 237, its worst so far. The One World Trade Center and the New York skyline are seen as a man jogs through the Liberty State Park while the smoke from Canadian wildfires covers the Manhattan borough on Jin New Jersey.
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