In the middle of the afternoon, smoke from Canadian forest fires blankets the skyline of New York City, June 7, 2023, as seen from Brooklyn, New York.As unprecedented, climate change-fueled wildfires in Canada
in record-breaking pollution in cities and towns across the U.S., marking not only a climate event but also a major public health event, a coal-funded lawyer went onon Wednesday night to spread a particularly dangerous lie: that breathing wildfire smoke doesn’t have any negative health effects., senior policy fellow of the Koch- and coal-funded Energy and Environment Legal Institute, said contrary to nearly all evidence that there’s “no health risk” to breathing wildfire smoke.
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