smoggy
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“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
California air regulators have long maintained that air quality issues in major California cities — including smoggy Los Angeles — are so severe that electric vehicles are necessary to meet pollution standards.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2024
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
They call this part of California the Inland Empire, and it’s always smoggy, because whatever nastiness is in the air gets blown here and caught against the mountains.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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