Clean Air Is Climate Infrastructure

On this episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast from Solarpunk Magazine, host Justine Norton-Kertson continues the discussion about wildfire and smoke from earlier this week, but from the angle of clean air as public infrastructure rather than from the perspective of small community disaster preparedness. Website: https://solarpunkmagazine.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/solarpunkmag Our Social Media Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/solarpunklitmag.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/solarpunklitmag TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@solarpunklitmag Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/solarpunklitmag News Articles and Other Sources Wildfires are making the US smoggy again, reversing progress on cleaner air, study finds https://apnews.com/article/smog-wildfires-climate-change-ozone-artificial-intelligence-bc9cde6da8ae4019cc07b800c70106ad Fires reverse progress toward ozone air quality standards in the United States https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aed3197 NASA-Funded Study Shows Wildfire Smoke’s Hidden Ozone Toll https://science.nasa.gov/earth/nasa-funded-study-shows-wildfire-smokes-hidden-ozone-toll Wildfire smoke has reversed US progress toward ozone air quality, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/04/wildfire-smoke-air-quality-ozone The Clean Air Act 101 https://www.nrdc.org/stories/clean-air-act-101 American Lung Association State of the Air Report https://www.lung.org/research/sota Science in Action: How to Build a Corsi-Rosenthal Box https://engineering.ucdavis.edu/news/science-action-how-build-corsi-rosenthal-box Monitor the Air Quality Index Near You https://www.iqair.com/usa