Washington Post throws cold water on DC fireworks with report of ‘hazardous air pollution’

Fireworks planned for President Donald Trump's July Fourth celebration on the National Mall are expected to cause hazardous air pollution around the Mall and "very unhealthy" conditions across central Washington, D.C., according to internal National Park Service documents reviewed by The Washington Post. The show is scheduled for Saturday night as part of the 250th anniversary of American independence. George Thurston, a professor of medicine and population health at New York University, told th