On this episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast from Solarpunk Magazine, host Justine Norton-Kertson continues the discussion about wildfire and smoke from earlier this week, but from the angle of clean air as public infrastructure rather than from the perspective of small community disaster preparedness.

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News Articles and Other Sources

Wildfires are making the US smoggy again, reversing progress on cleaner air, study finds

https://apnews.com/article/smog-wildfires-climate-change-ozone-artificial-intelligence-bc9cde6da8ae4019cc07b800c70106ad

Fires reverse progress toward ozone air quality standards in the United States

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aed3197

NASA-Funded Study Shows Wildfire Smoke’s Hidden Ozone Toll

https://science.nasa.gov/earth/nasa-funded-study-shows-wildfire-smokes-hidden-ozone-toll

Wildfire smoke has reversed US progress toward ozone air quality, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/04/wildfire-smoke-air-quality-ozone

The Clean Air Act 101

https://www.nrdc.org/stories/clean-air-act-101

American Lung Association State of the Air Report

https://www.lung.org/research/sota

Science in Action: How to Build a Corsi-Rosenthal Box

https://engineering.ucdavis.edu/news/science-action-how-build-corsi-rosenthal-box

Monitor the Air Quality Index Near You

https://www.iqair.com/usa

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