{"id":819582,"date":"2026-07-22T22:59:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T22:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/819582\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T22:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T22:59:15","slug":"opinion-should-the-u-s-punish-canada-for-its-wildfire-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/819582\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Should the U.S. punish Canada for its wildfire smoke?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"MEMP2BJD6NEVZE64OO5VK4X55I\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">I am deeply concerned about the thick smoke from Canadian fires last week that adversely affected many Americans\u2019 health. Canada has the responsibility to properly manage its forests. And this is not the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/weather\/2025\/08\/04\/smoke-haze-wildfires-maps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/weather\/2025\/08\/04\/smoke-haze-wildfires-maps\/\">first time in recent years<\/a> that smoke from Canadian wildfires has choked American cities. The U.S. government should explore ways to impose penalties on Canada for polluting the air. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I am deeply concerned about the thick smoke from Canadian fires last week that adversely affected many Americans\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-819582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}