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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 Orange, AAA Mid-Atlantic, hank silverberg, metropolitan council of governments, Lon Anderson, air quality

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Pets suffer in the summer heat too

Temps can be brutal around the D.C. area this time of year for humans. But what about pets?

Tags: pets, dogs, cats, weather, heat,

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