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Wildfire Smoke Is Erasing Progress on Clean Air

The New York Times · Mira Rojanasakul · last updated

Smoke from wildfires has worsened over the past decade, potentially reversing decades of improvements in Western air quality made under the Clean Air Act, according to research published Thursday from Stanford University.

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