CHI Director Dr. Susan Anenberg, Professor and Chair of Environmental and Occupational Health in the Milken Institute School of Public Health, published an op-ed in The Hill entitled 'Wildfire smoke is deadly: Why isn’t it accounted for in our climate policy?' This opinion piece underscores the need to include the health impacts of exposure to wildfire smoke and climate-related increases in dust, smog, and pollen in the Societal Cost of Greenhouse Gases, a government metric that is used to compare the estimated benefits to implementation costs of regulations that affect carbon emissions.
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