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Unhealthful air quality in the Nutmeg State today

Hello, and welcome to the premier post for Connecticut Green Living. So sorry we're starting off on a miserable note, but that's the state of our warming planet. The Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection as well as EPA New England have issued air quality alerts for today. Following is what the EPA stated in their press release: News Release U.S. Environmental Protection Agency New England Regional Office July 21, 2016 Contact: Emily Bender, (617) 918-1037 Poor Air Quality Expected for Coastal New England on Friday BOSTON – New England state air quality forecasters are predicting air quality that is unhealthy for sensitive groups, due to ground-level ozone, in much of southern New England for Friday, July 22. The areas that are predicted to exceed the Federal air quality standard for ozone on Friday are: Connecticut (excluding Litchfield County), Rhode Island, south-central and eastern Massachusetts (excluding Cape Cod and the Islands), and coastal Maine