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How much can one little letter do to help improve air quality? In week 2 of our six-week Project Smog series, Jesse McLean asks just that. He looks at the AQHI (Air Quality Health Index), a new index that has replaced the AQI (Air Quality Index) in parts of B.C. and Toronto. What's different? From the story:

Where the existing system reflects a region's air quality in relation to provincial standards, AQHI will rate air quality based on its risk to human health--and that might make all the difference.

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July 19, 2007

Introducing Project Smog

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Because it's time for some good, scary summer reading, this week This Magazine launches a six-week web feature on air quality. The first part of the in-depth series by This's own Jesse McLean is now online. Part I, "We don't need no regulation," challenges the myth of Canada as an environmental leader by looking at our air quality regulations -- or lack of them.

Future installments will explore -- among other things -- the effects of bad air on childhood asthma rates, transboundary pollution from the United States and the Aamjiwnaang people's deadly exposure to chemical plants.

So throw on that gas mask, and stay tuned.

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July 26, 2007

Indexing air quality: Project Smog, week 2

July 19, 2007

Introducing Project Smog