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Pennsylvania Measures Air Quality with Colors. Here’s What They Mean

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Pennsylvania is under a cloud of unhealthy air caused by smoke from Canadian wildfires. StateImpact Pennsylvania’s Rachel McDevitt reports the scale for measuring how bad the air quality is can be confusing.

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(Original air-date: 6/9/23)

Rachel McDevitt is a reporter for StateImpact Pennsylvania at WITF. Rachel joined WITF in 2017 as the host of All Things Considered. She previously reported for WITF’s Radio Pennsylvania Network, where her work earned the National Association of State Radio Network’s award for best feature two years in a row. The western Pennsylvania native started her journalism career with the CBS affiliate in Bridgeport, West Virginia. Rachel is a graduate of Temple University.