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The Brian Lehrer Show

Tracking The Air We Breathe

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

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4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Dhruv Khullar, practicing physician, contributing writer at The New Yorker and an assistant professor at Weill Cornell Medical College, explains how to navigate poor air quality, as smoke from wildfires and other air pollutants are becoming more common.

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0:00.0

It's Brian Larishow on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. Well, this may or may not be the

0:17.6

final day of the Supreme Court term. You know, we've been introducing the show like this

0:22.3

a lot of days lately when they are official decision days for the Supreme Court and we've

0:26.6

been waiting for all these major rulings. Many of them have come down already. We're still waiting

0:32.5

for their decision about the constitutionality of President Biden's student loan forgiveness

0:38.6

program. We're still waiting for them to pronounce on affirmative action in college admissions.

0:45.8

We're still waiting for them to pronounce on whether businesses can deny services to gay customers

0:53.6

because they want to. So it's a decision day. We're watching the feed. We will know any minute. If

1:01.1

any of these cases come down today, any of the rulings that don't come down today will come down

1:06.0

tomorrow. We have Ellie Mistal standing by one more time or maybe including tomorrow two more

1:12.5

times, Justice Carros Spinen for the nation to break it down in some detail for us later in the

1:18.9

show. If we do get a major ruling today and in the meantime, we will bring you the headlines as

1:25.7

they break this morning if any of those Supreme Court decisions come down. Meanwhile, when I check

1:32.7

the air quality site airnow.gov at seven o'clock this morning for my New York City zip code, it was

1:40.1

good or the color green on the map for two of the three pollutants they track. I'll check it again

1:46.6

momentarily for right now. But moderate bordering on what they call unhealthy for sensitive groups

1:55.4

for the one pollutant related to wildfire smoke known as PM 2.5. The map shows good air quality

2:03.8

in green on the map, moderate pollution as a yellow area, unhealthy for sensitive groups as

2:10.2

orange. And it goes up from there to red purple and maroon as some of you know, or unhealthy,

2:16.3

very unhealthy and hazardous. New York City was in the maroon colored hazardous range back on that

2:24.0

eerie worst pollution day on June 7th. But what does it all mean? How do you know if you're in a

2:29.8

sensitive group is age and independent risk factor, either for children or seniors, if you have no

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