The EPA’s ACE research program and Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (OAQPS) co-sponsored a “Wildfire Smoke Health Risk Management and Communication Workshop” with the goal to identify opportunities for research and technological solutions that could ...

In January 2020, the Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) requested that EPA, in collaboration with scientific staff in the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), conduct an assessment ...

This report will provide a better understanding of the health and environmental impacts, specifically pertaining to smoke, of prescribed fire and wildfire.

Upon completing this course, you will be able to do the following: • Identify why wildfire smoke exposure is a public health and clinical concern. • Identify groups at greatest risk from particle pollution in wildfire smoke. • Explain how particle pollution from wi...

• Identify why wildfire smoke exposure is a public health and clinical concern. • Identify groups at greatest risk from particle pollution in wildfire smoke. • Explain how particle pollution from wildfire smoke affects the general population....