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Region's air quality improves, despite hot summer

Even though there were eight days with temperatures over 100 degrees and 52 days over 90 degrees in 2012 -- making it the third hottest summer on record -- the region only had three Code Red days and 16 Code Orange days.

Tags: Code Red, Code Orange, AAA Mid-Atlantic, hank silverberg, metropolitan council of governments, Lon Anderson,

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Code Yellow air quality alert issued for Monday

The air quality for Monday has been downgraded from a Code Orange to a Code Yellow.

Tags: Code Orange, Prince Georges County Fire, heat, weather

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Maryland not meeting ozone standards

Maryland is not meeting federal ozone standards and isn't likely to do so without federal policies to address pollution blowing in from other states.

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