Air quality worsens as wildfire smoke blankets the DMV

A Code Red Air Quality Alert for the entire region for Friday as a thick plume of the Canadian wildfire smoke drops south ...

Treasury Official Fired After He Reportedly Warned White House Might Be Violating Law

Assistant Treasury Secretary Kenneth Kies has been ousted after he reportedly warned that the Trump administration was potentially violating a law prohibiting White House officials from intervening ...

What are Code Purple and Code Maroon? Behind the air quality alerts above Code Red

If you thought air quality was bad in Code Red conditions, there are two worse levels. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) uses the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Air ...

Code Purple Air Quality alert issued for all of PA Friday

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has issued a Code Purple on Thursday for several western ...