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Wildfires are often manmade and exacerbated by climate change. Besides it doesn't matter what chokes you in the end dead is dead.

I don't know if the US has air quality norms? If so it could force strong measures that impact the economy.

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microcolonel|6 years ago

> I don't know if the US has air quality norms? If so it could force strong measures that impact the economy.

They have rather strong ones, a lot of people are completely ignorant of how this stuff works. The U.S. tracks air quality across the country with a rather high resolution[0][1]; here in Canada we don't seem to have anywhere near the quality of reporting[2], and the air quality seems similar.

[0]: https://gispub.epa.gov/airnow/ [1]: https://epa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=... [2]: https://weather.gc.ca/airquality/pages/index_e.html