NJ Gov. Murphy, in state covered by smoke, says more needs to be done about climate change
WNYC News | Jun 7, 2023
Wednesday afternoon, the Air Quality Index in every New Jersey county reached “unhealthy” or “very unhealthy” levels due to Canadian wildfire smoke trickling south. That means anyone might feel the ill effects.
New Jersey deals with wildfires often, and they've ticked up this year. A 5,000-acre wildfire in South Jersey took days to get under control last week -- it even shut down 25 miles of the Garden State Parkway at one point.
Gov. Phil Murphy says we're going to keep seeing extreme weather events if we can't get climate change under control.
