Exposure to wildfire smoke and other particulate matter air pollution, which can be caused by diesel engines and coal-burning power plants, is increasingly being linked to poor health outcomes for pregnant people and their babies. MsReads via 19thnews
The decision of the ALA to include pregnant people as a vulnerable population in this year’s report is reflective of a growing body of research linking the climate crisis to pregnancy health. Earlier this year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which summarizes the latest climate science,
But there are still a lot of unknowns around this field of research, said Amy Padula, an associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco, who researches the impacts of air pollution on pregnancy.
As wildfire season grows longer and more destructive, the West is quickly becoming the epicenter of air pollution’s deleterious public health impacts, undoing some of the progress made under the Clean Air Act, Bender said.
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