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Another Dirty Air Alert For WI Lakefront Counties

As I've been reporting here, the air quality in Milwaukee and other Lakefront counties is again in a hazardous zone  - - and your soon-to-be-senior US Senator supported easing electric generating smokestack emission regulations - - but the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources decided in Walker's first few weeks in office to discontinue air quality "watches" until an"advisory" is needed.

The current advisory began at 3:00 PM and was issued at 3:15, according to the DNR. I got my email at 4:00 PM.

By which time, we were already breathing bad air - - but how long had these conditions been building to this point?

Wisconsin Statewide Air Quality Notices

 1 Active Air Quality Notice
  1. Air Quality Advisory for Ozone (Orange)
    Issued: 3:15 pm CT Thursday, July 5, 2012
    Start Time: 3:00 pm CT Thursday, July 5, 2012
    End Time: 1:00 am CT Friday, July 6, 2012
    Counties: Door, Kenosha, Kewaunee, Manitowoc, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Sheboygan