Publication: S.F. Chronicle

UCLA Expert: Michael Jerrett: Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health; Co-Director, Center for Healthy Climate Solutions; Member, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability; Faculty, Center for Occupational & Environmental Health; Chair, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health 

Synopsis: Wildfire smoke is inevitable in California. But there are some things the government can and must do about it. A study published in October found that smoke from California’s wildfires in 2020 put twice as much greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere as the state’s total reduction in such emissions from 2003 to 2019.

UCLA News: “Wildfire emissions in 2020 essentially negate 18 years of reductions in greenhouse gas emission,” said Jerrett, lead author of the research, in a press release accompanying the study.

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