What the 20th-century war on smog tells us about today’s wildfire smoke The evolution of air pollution policy shows how to respond to the dangerous haze

https://www.statnews.com/2026/07/17/wildfire-smoke-air-quality-smog-policy-climate-change/ By Rebecca Florsheim, Neil Vora, Peter J. Winch, and Connie HoeJuly 17, 2026 Florsheim is an environmental health physician at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Vora is a physician and executive director of Preventing Pandemics at the Source. Winch develops and evaluates interventions to promote health behaviors for water, sanitation, infectious diseases, and environmental sustainability. Hoe is a public health researcher who serves as endowed division head for policy and implementation research at the German Cancer Research Center.