{"id":211920,"date":"2026-04-27T23:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211920\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T23:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:26:08","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-report-nearly-all-of-connecticuts-counties-receive-failing-grade-for-air-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211920\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Report Nearly All Of Connecticuts Counties Receive Failing Grade For Air Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A new report by American Lung Association shows that 152 million Americans live in counties that have high levels of smog or soot.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">In this year&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Air Report&#8221;,<a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lung.org\/research\/sota\/city-rankings\/states\/connecticut\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> 7 out of 8 Connecticut counties <\/a>received a &#8220;F&#8221; grade, including Fairfield, Litchfield and New Haven counties.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The report tracks smog, along with short and long-term particle pollution, which includes dust, dirt, soot and smoke.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Experts say poor air quality can cause asthma attacks, heart attacks, strokes, preterm births and even lung cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new report by American Lung Association shows that 152 million Americans live in counties that have high&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-211920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}