To me, the key message of our work is that wildfire is rapidly undermining the massive air quality progress that has been made over the past 50 years. We show the progress being reversed (and this study doesn’t include 2020 data).
https://twitter.com/marshallbburke/status/1349018443446677507
And because wildfire smoke particles don’t count towards (or rather against) attainment due to the Clean Air Act’s “exceptional events” policy, we aren’t doing enough to develop effective responses to this growing public health crisis.
Wildfire (and wildfire smoke) is not exceptional. It is the predictable result of a century of forest management decisions. We can make different decisions and have different outcomes. If we want to. #goodfire is the key to reducing impacts of catastrophic wildfire.
But neither is a wildfire a smokestack or a tailpipe - the prototypical “sources” regulated under the CAA. We need to rethink how the Act is applied and utilized to address wildfire. But we must do so with a focus on the implications for other (land use) management frameworks.
I’d add professionally and methodologically that this work is a great example of the value of multidisciplinary research and scholarship. @StanfordWoods @StanfordEarth
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