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  the smoggy atmosphere of Los Angeles

• However, the solution is only a quick fix; once the controls are lifted, Beijing will most likely return to its smoggy norm.
• Tourists typically give Manila a wide berth, or else use the smoggy, chaotic Philippine capital as a mere layover en route to one of the country's coastal resorts.
• Unusually smoggy Chicago weather set off thousands of newly-required home carbon monoxide detectors today, forcing city officials to plead for calm.

News & Articles

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• Research says winter smog takes big hit from wood burning
  Even though there might be just a few wood stoves and fireplaces pumping out smoke on northern Utah’s smoggy winter days, they are having a huge impact on air quality.
  June 8, 2013 - The Salt Lake Tribune
• Stay Current with the Pick of the Day: Moodie Black
  Whether you call it noise rap, industrial hip-hop, or freaky-urban, the music of Arizona’s Moodie Black (pictured) is sublime in a deeply unsettling kind of way. Well-crafted and apocalyptic lyrics hover over and in between smoggy clouds of racket, like the rapture of decay that calls to mind nothing more than the screeching jolts of the postmodern city’s vast machinery. Like the relatively few ...
  June 7, 2013 - San Antonio Current

Quotes

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• Ed Begley Jr in KOAT
  By 1970, I'd had enough. I had lived through the '50s and '60s in smoggy LA, so I wanted to do something,Begley said. "I got involved in the first Earth Day in 1970, started recycling and composting. [I] bought my first electric car in...
• Jamie Schroeder in McClatchy Washington Bureau
  It's better than I expected,US rower Jamie Schroeder said. "I've come to Beijing three times before. I used to go out to the Great Wall and was always struck, when I came back into the city, by how smoggy it was. But this time, you can't...
• Bill Mazeroski in USA Today
  When I got here in '56, it was always dark, always smoggy at noon because of the steel mills,Mazeroski says. "Now you can see the sun and it's beautiful. The whole city has changed since then. Pittsburgh gets a bad rap, but they did a...