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February 12th, 2024 — Brooklyn (NY) — Today, First Street released their 10th national risk assessment entitled “Atrocious Air.” The report highlights the contribution of climate change to the increasing risk of exposure to poor air quality today and into the future. These trends are a reversal of hard fought gains in air quality improvement over the past half century.
The model behind the report is built on a number of peer-reviewed research articles published by First Street, linking climate change to current and future Ozone (O3) levels, projecting future smoke exposure due to Wildfires, and combining climate driven O3 and PM2.5 with anthropogenic pollutants into a consolidated model.
The First Street – Air Quality Model (FS-AQM) finds that across the United States, over 83…
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