Not only do fireworks scare animals and injure people, they are also bad for air quality when there's no wind to blow the smoke away.
The Fourth of July is here again, and that means fireworks. It’s an annual tradition that comes with a lot of baggage. Each year the colorful combustibles injure people, scare animals and create fire risk.That’s because setting them off puts particulate matter into the air, just like running a gas-powered car or burning coal at a power plant would.
“When you add it all up together, a pretty significant source of air pollution,” says Anton Cox, air quality program manager at the Capital Area Council of Governments .The impact fireworks have on local air quality depends on weather conditions, Cox says. If there’s a breeze, the smoke typically dissipates and is not picked up by regional air monitors.Cox says it last happened in Austin on New Year’s Day of 2023.
The particulate matter pushed the regional air quality index into a category deemed “unhealthy for sensitive groups" by federal and state regulators. According to researchers, the dangers of putting those toxins into the air may not end when they fall to the ground.
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