Mike Silverstein is the executive director of the Regional Air Quality Council, the lead air quality planning agency for the Denver Metro/North Front Range Ozone Non-Attainment Area.
Western wildfires billowed out another discouraging summer of visibly poor air for Denver and the Front Range. While the pollutants in this smoke are unhealthy on their own, they quite literally provided a smokescreen to our most enduring local air quality issue: harmful levels of ground-level ozone. We typically consider June through mid-September the height […]
