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Re:A little-known pollution rule keeps the air dirty for mil... by jjk166 on Monday October 16, 2023 @12:57PM (#37902759)
No one is claiming the wildfires are unrelated to human activity, just that they are unrelated to the EPA's emissions standards, which neither regulate the gasses responsible for climate change, nor affect actions in other nations.
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Re:A little-known pollution rule keeps the air dirty for mil... by lucideer on Monday October 16, 2023 @01:06PM (#37902905)
> they are unrelated to the EPA's emissions standards

This seems tautological? Surely the proposal here is a change to said standards to increase their utility?

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Re:A little-known pollution rule keeps the air dirty for mil... by jjk166 on Monday October 16, 2023 @03:28PM (#37905009)
How is it tautological? Anthropomorphic climate change is driven by the global emission of greenhouse gasses that have very little direct effect on air quality. These standards are for regulating local emissions of substances that negatively impact local air quality.
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Re:A little-known pollution rule keeps the air dirty for mil... by Dylan16807 on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:17AM (#37910553)
Climate change is a driver here, but the smoke itself is local (at least to the same extent as most regulated emissions) and negatively impacts air quality.
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