smoggy

The cashier at the local Chopt admitted to me that foot traffic had slowed significantly this week, even before the smoggy conditions set in.

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026

“You’ve probably noticed that the air looks smoggy today—that’s the particulate matter,” Cohan, the Rice University professor, said via email that day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

It was another smoggy day for Trump in the Chinese capital, although cooler than Thursday, when Xi greeted Trump at the footsteps of Tiananmen Square with a lavish state welcome.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

Authorities once again issued an alert on Friday, a common occurrence on smoggy winter days, with cleaner air expected by Sunday.

From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026

They call this part of California the Inland Empire, and it’s always smoggy, because whatever nastiness is in the air gets blown here and caught against the mountains.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

Despite increasingly warmer, smoggier summers, I rarely shed my shirt to run in just my sports bra.

From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2024

And now, in addition to pollution, regulators are contending with climate change, conditions scientists say could lead to a smoggier future.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2022

Bangalore now reminds him of the Silicon Valley, and Beijing and New Delhi are smoggier than anything he had ever encountered at home.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 17, 2014

On some days, and by some measures, Salt Lake City is smoggier than Beijing.

From Economist ● Jan. 30, 2014

When alone, the old smoggier said: "Now, speak out, young man!"

From The Dock Rats of New York by Harlan Page Halsey

A midday local kickoff would put the game squarely in the hottest, smoggiest part of the day in a move that England fears would only enhance Mexico’s home-field advantage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

Yet, even despite its progress, Greater Los Angeles still is the nation’s smoggiest region — and that’s only one pollutant to keep in mind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2023

Southern California air regulators have approved a sweeping plan to reduce pollution in the nation’s smoggiest region within the next two decades, but say they cannot meet national air quality standards without federal action.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2022

They were checking to make sure villagers in Tangshan’s Fengrun district — one of China’s smoggiest spots — had quit burning coal for heat.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2021

Henan's Anyang, which ranked as China's smoggiest city in 2020, failed to meet a requirement to close 6.6 million tonnes of inefficient coking capacity last year, the ministry said.

From Reuters ● Jul. 16, 2021