smoggy

The cashier at the local Chopt admitted to me that foot traffic had slowed significantly this week, even before the smoggy conditions set in.

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026

“You’ve probably noticed that the air looks smoggy today—that’s the particulate matter,” Cohan, the Rice University professor, said via email that day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

Authorities once again issued an alert on Friday, a common occurrence on smoggy winter days, with cleaner air expected by Sunday.

From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026

With days of more pollutants building up close to the ground, then the smoggy layer became toxic and very dense.

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2023

After two years engulfed in Chicago’s smoggy warrens, it was such a pleasant change to return to the land.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Despite increasingly warmer, smoggier summers, I rarely shed my shirt to run in just my sports bra.

From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2024

And now, in addition to pollution, regulators are contending with climate change, conditions scientists say could lead to a smoggier future.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2022

Bangalore now reminds him of the Silicon Valley, and Beijing and New Delhi are smoggier than anything he had ever encountered at home.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 17, 2014

On some days, and by some measures, Salt Lake City is smoggier than Beijing.

From Economist ● Jan. 30, 2014

When alone, the old smoggier said: "Now, speak out, young man!"

From The Dock Rats of New York by Harlan Page Halsey

A midday local kickoff would put the game squarely in the hottest, smoggiest part of the day in a move that England fears would only enhance Mexico’s home-field advantage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

Despite decades of progress in reducing air pollution, Los Angeles is still the nation’s smoggiest city, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Lung Assn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2025

The largest allocation went to the South Coast Air Quality Management District, the agency tasked with reducing air pollution in the smoggiest air basin in the nation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2024

They were checking to make sure villagers in Tangshan’s Fengrun district — one of China’s smoggiest spots — had quit burning coal for heat.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2021

Henan's Anyang, which ranked as China's smoggiest city in 2020, failed to meet a requirement to close 6.6 million tonnes of inefficient coking capacity last year, the ministry said.

From Reuters ● Jul. 16, 2021