{"id":116440,"date":"2025-08-03T20:18:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T20:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/116440\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T20:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T20:18:13","slug":"canadian-wildfire-smoke-pushes-maine-air-pollution-into-unhealthy-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/116440\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian wildfire\u00a0smoke pushes Maine air pollution into unhealthy range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A plume of smoke from Canadian wildfires pushed air particle pollution into the unhealthy\u00a0range in parts of Maine on Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.web.maine.gov\/cgi-bin\/online\/dep\/air\/aqforecast\/index.pl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the Maine Department of Environmental Protection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ozone levels were \u201cgood\u201d statewide, but particle pollution was considered unhealthy in northern Maine, unhealthy for sensitive groups in western areas and moderate in the rest of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Those most at risk from the elevated levels include children, older adults and people with pre-existing conditions. Healthy individuals should also consider limiting strenuous or prolonged outdoor activity, the department said.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, particle pollution levels from the wildfires are expected to be moderate across the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A plume of smoke from Canadian wildfires pushed air particle pollution into the unhealthy\u00a0range in parts of Maine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":116441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[746,159,67,132,20812,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-116440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-update","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114966685594779471","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}