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For most Montanans, wildfire smoke is ‘out of sight, out of mind’. It’s been almost a year since smoke pollution filled Missoula County, turning the air…
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Public health agencies are set up to regulate air pollution from cars, trucks and factories. Wildfire smoke presents a different set of threats, prompting some of those agencies to rethink priorities.
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This past wildfire season, unprecedented amounts of wildfire smoke in communities across western Montana threw public health agencies a…
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This summer, Missoula County had its worst wildfire smoke season on record. It’s unclear how exactly that impacted the health of county residents, both as…
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Public health officials in Montana are hopeful that a rise in one sexually transmitted disease linked to the Bakken oil boom is starting to go back…
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Seeley Lake-area kids will at least have a buffer from the dangerous local wildfire smoke when school resumes. The Missoula County Health Department and…
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This morning's air quality update from Missoula City-County Air Quality Specialist Sarah Coefield:"Good morning. Depending on where you are, you either…
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Wednesday, Missoula County's health department made the unprecedented recommendation that an entire town, Seeley Lake, evacuate because of pollution from…
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Today's update from Missoula Air Quality Specialist Sarah Coefield:"The combination of active fires, strong inversions and Canadian smoke means we all…
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The Missoula City-County Health Department is now recommending that people in Seeley Lake who are able to do so leave the area until the wildfire smoke…