Air quality in the Midwestern city of Detroit is currently the worst in the world, Swiss air quality tracker IQAir said, followed by Minneapolis and Toronto.
Republican lawmakers in the state of Michigan have penned an open letter, external to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney asking for better management of the country’s wildfires, expressing frustration for the third year in a row.
“A year has passed, the season has come around again, and nothing has changed except that our patience has run out,” said the letter, signed by four House representatives from the US state.
Pete Hoekstra, the US ambassador to Canada, struck a more diplomatic tone in a statement on Wednesday commending wildfire fighting efforts from both countries.
“This challenge knows no borders. The United States will continue to coordinate closely with Canada, just as we have for more than four decades of shared wildfire emergencies,” he said.
