Study: Wildfire smoke is reversing years of US air quality progress

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By Anita HofschneiderSep 20, 2023, 9:52 pm227 pts
Smoke from wildfires across the continental U.S is stalling — in some places, reversing — years of progress on air quality. A new study published in Nature found that since 2016, wildfire smoke has undone 25 percent of air quality improvements achieved since 2000. “We’re not back to 2000 levels.…

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