Senator John Hoeven (R-N.D.) on the FLAG, Friday pressed for greater Canadian accountability regarding the persistent wildfire smoke blanketing northern border states. A Call for Reciprocal ResponsibilityComparing air quality management to cross-border water management, Hoeven underscored how regional leaders in North Dakota and Minnesota have spent decades building flood protection infrastructure to regulate river flows entering Manitoba. Hoeven criticized forest management policies that prioritize environmental ideology over active timber thinning and hazard reduction. “They can’t just quit good forest management on the guise of Green New Deal stuff and then we get all this smoke.” Beyond border air quality, Hoeven outlined several other legislative and foreign policy initiatives during the broadcast: