Jun Wang, EHSRC Member and Lichtenberg Family Chair in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, is the corresponding author for a study published in the journal Science that found that ozone pollution has worsened in much of the continental United States over the past decade, fueled by wildfires and the long-distance transport of unhealthy air.
The study also found that the increase in wildfire-driven ozone pollution over the past decade has undercut air-quality improvements achieved before 2015, largely through reductions in automobile emissions, which are a main contributor to surface ozone.
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