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8/20/2025

  • jesse4430
  • Aug 20, 2025
  • 1 min read

LANSING (AP) - Republican lawmakers are blaming Canada for not preventing and containing wildfires, whose smoke has fouled the air in several states this year including in the UP and Northern Wisconsin. In letters expressing outrage and indignation, they demand more forest thinning, prescribed burns and other measures. They warned the smoke is hurting relations between the countries and suggested the U.S. could make it an issue in tariff talks. Yesterday the Canadian government announced almost $46 million in funding for wildfire prevention and risk assessment research projects. 

 
 
 

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