The report warns that climate-related wildfires and heatwaves are undoing many of the gains from federal clean air regulations. Between 2010 and 2016, the United States started to see an increase in air pollution for the first time in 80 years, said Jeremy Porter, head of climate implications research at First Street.
Hell, it already happened last year. There was a good chunk of the summer where it smelled rancid outside from the fires going on a thousand or more miles away.