Few can forget the haunting images of New York City bathed in a thick orange smog after smoke from Canadian wildfires swept southward last summer.
Now, a new report from the First Street Foundation suggests these alarming effects of climate change are becoming far more common, with 1 in 4 Americans — 83 million people in all — now exposed to "unhealthy air."
Within decades, the number of Americans exposed to polluted air could grow to 125 million, according to First Street, which analyzes climate risks. “The statistical signals are clear. We are seeing rapid increases in air pollutants after decades of legislation to reduce pollution,” Matthew Eby, founder and CEO of First Street, said in the foundation's news release. "The major concern moving forward is that climate is much harder to regulate than industry.”
"We've seen very early statistical signals in our own analysis that people are moving away from the smoke that comes from wildfire," Porter toldFolks living in California, Oregon and Washington are seeing the greatest declines in air quality, at least partly due to continuing wildfires in those states."It's become something that is impacting people's daily lives east of the Mississippi River," Porter noted.
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