From WLKY:

Nearly half of the people in the U.S. live in areas with unhealthy levels of air pollution — and Louisville is one of those areas.

According to air quality data from the American Lung Association (ALA), the new 2025 annual report covers data from 2021 to 2023, the most recent year available. …

Louisville ranks alongside other nearby big cities like Indianapolis and Cincinnati, which also got failing grades.

Wildfires are one of the biggest factors leading to unhealthy air, especially as the changing climate causes more extreme heat and drought. But emissions, industry, oil and gas extraction, mining and construction also pollute the air.

Air quality was improving across the country after the passage of the 1963 Clean Air Act, Pruitt said, but 10 years ago, progress halted. Increasing extreme heat events and wildfires have led to more ozone and particle pollution — two ways of measuring air quality — reversing clean air improvements.

We find it particularly interesting that the following paragraph didn’t make it into the WLKY report:

Now, the new Trump administration has started rolling back environmental protections. President Donald Trump has signed executive orders calling for energy production deregulation, and the Environmental Protection Agency has laid off staff amid the Department of Government Efficiency’s restructuring.

Why does local media go out of its way to protect the Space Nazi’s pet? The reason we can’t breathe is because MAGAts believed they were going to get cheap eggs. They didn’t, but that doesn’t matter because we’re going to suffocate before scrambling begins (by the way, with tariffs, we’re sure eggs are going to be more expensive).