EPA Plans Updated Guidance, New Research On Wildfires' Health Impacts

EPA staff is planning updated guidance on the health impacts of wildfire smoke in addition to launching a new research push to further understand those impacts, responding to the increasing incidence and severity of wildfires across the United States that could pose respiratory and cardiovascular health problems and even the risk of death. On a recent public webinar , Wayne Cascio of EPA's Office of Research and Development outlined EPA's planned activities on wildfires, which emit large volumes of hazardous...