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After All Things

Smoke and haze

By Sabrina Garone
Published June 7, 2023 at 5:12 PM EDT
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Air quality alerts are in effect in Connecticut and New York due to smoke and haze from wildfires in Canada. Connecticut's legislative session ends tonight. Settlement funds from JUUL will go to Connecticut’s behavioral health organizations. And the New York legislature goes back and forth on several bills related to voting.

You can check the air quality in your zip code at airnow.gov.

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Sabrina Garone
Sabrina is host and producer of WSHU’s daily podcast After All Things. She also produces the climate podcast Higher Ground and other long-form news and music programs at the station. Sabrina spent two years as a WSHU fellow, working as a reporter and assisting with production of The Full Story.
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