The U.S. government — who knew but who's surprised — has a color-code system for describing air quality, according to which the very worst color is maroon. Air in Decatur, Illinois, registered maroon yesterday afternoon due to wildfire smoke imported from Canada, our former NAFTA (now USMCA) partner to the north.
Maroon air, according to the EPA, is a "health warning of emergency conditions: everyone is more likely to be affected" — or, as Megan Schopp, a respiratory therapist at the Christie Clinic of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, points out, makes it "a little harder to breathe."
In any case, just so you know, the very best air is, of course. green.
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