Climate change is undoing decades of progress on air quality • Minnesota Reformer

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Climate change is undoing decades of progress on air quality • Minnesota Reformer

Minneapolis engulfed in a smoke from Canada wildfires. Such fires have grown more prevalent with climate change. Getty Images. This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. A choking layer of pollution-laced fog settled over Minneapolis earlier this year, blanketing the city in its worst air quality since 2005. A temperature inversion acted like a ceiling, trapping small particles emitted from sluggish…