Mastodawn

Burning throats and persistent headaches: What life is like in #LosAngeles neighborhood plagued by a weeklong #WarehouseFire

By Cindy Von Quednow, 6/24/2026

"The #BoyleHeights community has been left reeling since the persistent blaze at the privately owned cold-storage warehouse broke out June 17, sending smoke throughout the #Southland and residents seeking refuge indoors as efforts continue to extinguish it. "

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/24/us/boyle-heights-la-fire

#AirQuality #AQI #SmokePollution #California

Burning throats and persistent headaches: What life is like in Los Angeles neighborhood plagued by a weeklong warehouse fire

When Ethan Salter got home from a recording session last Wednesday, he thought the warehouse fire that started burning that day a mere block from his Boyle Heights home was already out.

CNN

Frank Sonntag Jul 22, 2024

Frank's written a bot.

Follow @noaa_hrrr_smoke_forecast_bot for CONUS near surface smoke forecast animations updated every 3 hours.

Boosts, feedback and ideas for other bots of a similar nature welcome.

#NOAA #WildFires #SmokePollution

ScienceCommunicator Jan 28, 2024

If it acts like an air polluting Zombie and talks like an air polluting Zombie?

Find out what the Zombies don't want you to know at https://www.dsawsp.org/

#science #chemistry #biology #AirPollution #SmokePollution #climate #health #CleanAir
#art #PixelFed #allegory #education #comedy #satire

Doctors and Scientists Against Wood Smoke Pollution

Wood burning is a major source of harmful air pollution in many communities, yet there is a lack of awareness about this public health and environmental issue.

The-14 Jul 7, 2023

Anticipating Canada’s crisis response decisions can save critical time in future wildfire seasons
#Lytton #BC #BritishColumbia #Canada #Environment #Wildfires #Fire #SmokePollution #WildfireManagement #Crisis #Prepare #Alternatives #NewApproach #Future
https://the-14.com/anticipating-canadas-crisis-response-decisions-can-save-critical-time-in-future-wildfire-seasons/

Anticipating Canada’s crisis response decisions can save critical time in future wildfire seasons | The-14

On June 30, 2021, town of Lytton in British Columbia was destroyed by an out-of-control wildfire. The aftermath saw a lot of anger and finger pointing. Wildfire

The-14 Pictures

Gladwyn d’Souza Jun 11, 2023

#RegulatoryCapture: A #BigOil-backed #exemption in #federal #environmental #law allows #states to discount #pollution from “exceptional events” beyond their control, including #wildfires… so #emissions sources in the state won’t be required to reduce other #discharges to help offset the #smokepollution.

#keepitintheground
#TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence
#distributemedia

https://open.substack.com/pub/rssg7c7gxlbkmwwwdailypostercom/p/648394893f62630001dbbc72-ba463452?r=11rw36&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

Oil Lobby Pushed Pollution Loophole for Wildfire Smoke

Climate change is intensifying toxic wildfires, but Big Oil has pushed to exempt the resulting pollution from federal air quality standards.

The Lever

𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔 𝑻𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒆®May 19, 2023

👇🇺🇸🇨🇦"Smoke from Canadian fires is pouring into the US and could linger for days" #AlbertaWildfires
#SmokePollution #NorthAmerica
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/19/americas/canada-wildfires-us-smoke-air-quality/index.html

empiricism May 5, 2023

Our #intelligence is the capacity to process information logically (rationally).

However, that capacity can go astray & be cognitively blinkered - focused on, e.g., the acquisition of money (causing cognitive bias).

Or, that capacity can be more sustainable, e.g., personal #health . Once a person has developed a relatively health oriented form of intelligence, they will adapt & avoid many of the unhealthy behaviours of the relatively ignorant

#AirPollution #SmokePollution #premature #death

empiricism Apr 22, 2023

There are many psychological reasons why societies are, generally implicitly, failing to be sustainable lifestyles(culture)

Out of those reasons, are the political policies that are so contradictory, they must be either #greenwash or simply ignorant decision making

Business as usual - the UK's dominant political parties have reacted to the medical evidence that clean air is healthy for people & planet, by having policies that promote the installation of wood burners

#SmokePollution #disease