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  The brain-damaging 63 days of violations (most of them in Kern County) this past winter were due to ammonium-nitrate particles.  These form when ammonia mixes with NOx in cool, moist air.  The NOx from vehicle exhaust would not be nearly as dangerous by itself.  The ammonia from dairy lagoons would not be dangerous either unless you live too close to a dairy.  But, mixed together, these two  kinds of emissions form a deadly coctail. Ammonia is highly regulated in the Los Angeles area but our air district has refused so far.  "How can a cow damage our air quality?", is the usual response.  Unfortunately, each of our factory dairies has the sewage problem of a small city and they are allowed to do almost anything they want with that sewage including disposal of most of the nitrates found in the manure straight into our air.  The real problem is they are not required to have enough land for each cow for proper recycling of the...
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