![]() “Many communities face this way too often,” said Riley, who is Black. “The more breaths you’re taking, you’re inhaling, literally, a fire, camp smoke, into your lungs,” said Darren Riley, who was diagnosed with asthma in 2018, a few years after arriving in Detroit. ![]() ![]() on Wednesday, prompting the Environmental Protection Agency to warn that “everyone should stay indoors.” Detroit, a mostly Black city with a poverty rate of about 30%, had some of the worst air quality in the U.S. The impacts are particularly hard on poor and minority communities that are more likely to live near polluting plants and have higher rates of asthma. from Minnesota to New York and Kentucky on Wednesday, prompting warnings to stay inside and exacerbating health risks for people already suffering from industrial pollution. ![]() DETROIT (AP) - Smoky air from Canada’s wildfires shrouded broad swaths of the U.S. ![]()
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