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- Ann BrownEnvironmental Protection Agency
- Environmental Protection Agency
Fires are increasing in frequency, size and intensity partly due to climate change and land management practices, yet there is limited knowledge of the impacts of smoke emissions - both short term and long term. EPA is using its expertise in air quality research to fill the gaps in scientific information and to develop tools to prevent and reduce the impact of wildfires and controlled or prescribed burns. The wildland fire research has three main goals: Provide new science to understand the impacts of smoke on health, and how this knowledge can instruct smoke management practices and intervention strategies to reduce health impacts; Provide essential novel data on smoke emissions to construct the national emission inventory used to understand air quality across the country; and, Improve understanding of how smoke from fires affects air quality and climate change.
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- air quality
- climate change
- community protection
- health impacts
- public health
- research
- smoke management
- water supply
- wildfires