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Wildfire smoke is eroding decades of air quality improvements, study finds

A study has found that decades of air quality improvements are being eroded by wildfire smoke.
Air pollution control measures have been found to have a positive impact on life expectancy in the United States.
Increases in air pollution have been linked to mortality rates.

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abc News

Wildfires in recent years have reversed some of the progress made in eliminating air pollution, new study suggests

The smoke from wildfires in recent years has been so intense that it is decreasing air quality in the majority of the U.S., according to new research.

2 months ago·United States

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The Washington Post

Wildfire smoke is eroding decades of air quality improvements, study finds

In more than a half century since the Clean Air Act was enacted, there have been dramatic improvements in air quality in the United States, as regulations demanding less-polluting cars and factories helped lift cities from clouds of dirty smog. But a big chunk of recent air quality progress has been rolled back for one reason - wildfire smoke - and it's happening far beyond the smoldering forests of Western states.

2 months ago

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The Mercury news

Wildfire smoke is reversing years of air pollution progress

New Stanford study shows fires are increasingly to blame for bad air, particularly in California and the West

2 months ago·San Jose, United States

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npr

How wildfire smoke is erasing years of progress toward cleaning up America's air

A new study finds that smoke from massive wildfires has eroded about a quarter of the air quality gains from the last few decades.

2 months ago·Washington, United States

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NBC News

Wildfires are destroying decades of clean air efforts in the U.S.

Increases in wildfire smoke are reversing decades of improvements to air quality in some parts of the U.S., according to new research.

2 months ago·United States

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Phys.org

Alarming results from world-first study of two decades of global smoke pollution

The world's first study of the increase in pollution from landscape fires across the globe over the past two decades reveals that more than 2 billion people are exposed to at least one day of potentially health-impacting environmental hazard annually—a figure that has increased by 6.8% in the last 10 years.

2 months ago·United Kingdom

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