Marshall Burke

professor of sustainability at Stanford University

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Pollution from wildfire smoke has stalled, in some cases reversed, air-quality improvements in most states. That’s according to Stanford researchers.

Wildfires are erasing gains made by 1970 Clean Air Act

Pollution from wildfire smoke has stalled, in some cases reversed, air-quality improvements in most states. That’s according to Stanford researchers.

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