Air quality on the East Coast has improved to at least a moderate level and will continue getting better by the weekend.

<div class="block">Air quality on the East Coast has improved to at least a moderate level and will continue getting better by the weekend.</div>

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Air Quality Expected to Improve This Weekend

So let's take a look at the business headlines. You need to know starting with the air quality here on the east coast for the first time since Monday. The air quality in New York City has improved to at least a moderate level. This is according to the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, air quality issues from those wildfires in Canada are expected to continue improving over the weekend in most of the east coast. But skies will take time to fully clear as more than 50 million Americans remain under air quality alerts yesterday. Us Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer urged the Department of Agriculture to double the number of us forest service personnel available to help in Canada.