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Study: Wildfires produced up to half of pollution in US West

by Matthew Brown
| January 12, 2021 12:06 AM

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Wildfire smoke accounted for up to half of all health-damaging small particle air pollution in the western U.S. in recent years as warming temperatures fueled more destructive blazes, according to a study released Monday.

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