GOP senator to introduce bill to sanction Canada over wildfire smoke

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Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio), a close Trump ally, announced Thursday that he will introduce legislation to sanction Canada and Canadian officials over the huge wildfires that have poured smoke and haze across the United States, creating hazardous air-quality conditions.

“I’ll be introducing a bill next week to sanction Canada and the responsible Canadian government officials for this atrocity,” Moreno posted on social media.

The Ohio Republican reposted an image of a deserted boulevard in Cleveland with buildings shrouded in haze.

Moreno’s office criticized Canadian officials who failed to contain wildfires, creating huge smoke clouds that have created dangerous air quality across Michigan, Ohio and other parts of the country.

Moreno believes Canada’s government needed to invest in wildfire prevention methods such as forest thinning, fuel reduction, prescribed burns and beefed up enforcement against arson.

Major cities including Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and Minneapolis registered dangerous air quality readings on Thursday.

The smoke and haze has reached as far as New York, obscuring the Manhattan skyline and creating orange-tinged skies.

Four Republican members of the House wrote an angry letter to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, blasting his government for not doing more to prevent the crisis.

“This is the third consecutive year we have had to write to Canadian officials about a crisis that Canada has the tools to prevent and has chosen not to,” wrote Republican Reps. John James (Mich.), Jack Bergman (Mich.), John Moolenaar (Mich.) and Lisa McClain (Mich.).

The lawmakers threatened that the United States may send its agencies into Canada to manage the problem if Canadian officials don’t address it more vigorously.

“We are done accepting apologies in place of action. If Canada will not manage its forests to prevent these fires, the United States will look elsewhere, and act on our own, to protect our people,” the GOP lawmakers wrote.

“That means our own agencies exploring direct involvement in cross-border fuel reduction and firefighting capacity. It means reconsidering how much benefit of the doubt this relationship continues to earn on an issue where American lungs are paying the price for Canadian inaction, year after year,” they warned.

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Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio), a close Trump ally, announced Thursday that he will introduce legislation to sanction Canada and Canadian officials over the huge wildfires that have poured smoke and haze across the United States, creating hazardous air-quality conditions.

“I’ll be introducing a bill next week to sanction Canada and the responsible Canadian government officials for this atrocity,” Moreno posted on social media.

The Ohio Republican reposted an image of a deserted boulevard in Cleveland with buildings shrouded in haze.

Moreno’s office criticized Canadian officials who failed to contain wildfires, creating huge smoke clouds that have created dangerous air quality across Michigan, Ohio and other parts of the country.

Moreno believes Canada’s government needed to invest in wildfire prevention methods such as forest thinning, fuel reduction, prescribed burns and beefed up enforcement against arson.

Major cities including Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and Minneapolis registered dangerous air quality readings on Thursday.

The smoke and haze has reached as far as New York, obscuring the Manhattan skyline and creating orange-tinged skies.

Four Republican members of the House wrote an angry letter to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, blasting his government for not doing more to prevent the crisis.

“This is the third consecutive year we have had to write to Canadian officials about a crisis that Canada has the tools to prevent and has chosen not to,” wrote Republican Reps. John James (Mich.), Jack Bergman (Mich.), John Moolenaar (Mich.) and Lisa McClain (Mich.).

The lawmakers threatened that the United States may send its agencies into Canada to manage the problem if Canadian officials don’t address it more vigorously.

“We are done accepting apologies in place of action. If Canada will not manage its forests to prevent these fires, the United States will look elsewhere, and act on our own, to protect our people,” the GOP lawmakers wrote.

“That means our own agencies exploring direct involvement in cross-border fuel reduction and firefighting capacity. It means reconsidering how much benefit of the doubt this relationship continues to earn on an issue where American lungs are paying the price for Canadian inaction, year after year,” they warned.

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Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio), a close Trump ally, announced Thursday that he will introduce legislation to sanction Canada and Canadian officials over the huge wildfires that have poured smoke and haze across the United States, creating hazardous air-quality conditions.

“I’ll be introducing a bill next week to sanction Canada and the responsible Canadian government officials for this atrocity,” Moreno posted on social media.

The Ohio Republican reposted an image of a deserted boulevard in Cleveland with buildings shrouded in haze.

Moreno’s office criticized Canadian officials who failed to contain wildfires, creating huge smoke clouds that have created dangerous air quality across Michigan, Ohio and other parts of the country.

Moreno believes Canada’s government needed to invest in wildfire prevention methods such as forest thinning, fuel reduction, prescribed burns and beefed up enforcement against arson.

Major cities including Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and Minneapolis registered dangerous air quality readings on Thursday.

The smoke and haze has reached as far as New York, obscuring the Manhattan skyline and creating orange-tinged skies.

Four Republican members of the House wrote an angry letter to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, blasting his government for not doing more to prevent the crisis.

“This is the third consecutive year we have had to write to Canadian officials about a crisis that Canada has the tools to prevent and has chosen not to,” wrote Republican Reps. John James (Mich.), Jack Bergman (Mich.), John Moolenaar (Mich.) and Lisa McClain (Mich.).

The lawmakers threatened that the United States may send its agencies into Canada to manage the problem if Canadian officials don’t address it more vigorously.

“We are done accepting apologies in place of action. If Canada will not manage its forests to prevent these fires, the United States will look elsewhere, and act on our own, to protect our people,” the GOP lawmakers wrote.

“That means our own agencies exploring direct involvement in cross-border fuel reduction and firefighting capacity. It means reconsidering how much benefit of the doubt this relationship continues to earn on an issue where American lungs are paying the price for Canadian inaction, year after year,” they warned.

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• Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio), a close Trump ally, announced Thursday that he will introduce legislation to sanction Canada and Canadian officials over the huge wildfires that have…