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On the recordJune 7, 2023
It's coming from wildfires. They're coming from Canada. They relate to combustibility that we've talked about already in forests, it tracks back to the changes in the climate that we are experiencing as a result of fossil fuel emission.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Linking air quality issues to climate change and fossil fuel emissions.

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