House Democrats seek GAO review of wildfires’ impact on air, COVID-19

September 22, 2020
A group of eight House Democrats, including the chair and members of the science panel’s environment subcommittee, are asking the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to evaluate the impacts of climate change-exacerbated wildfires on air quality and public health, including COVID-19 morbidity and mortality. “Increasingly frequent and severe wildfires, as well as lengthening wildfire seasons, are erasing decades of air quality improvements in many areas of the country,” the lawmakers write in a Sept. 21 letter to GAO Comptroller General Gene...


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