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Appeals Court Rules In Favor of Local Group
The Association of Irritated Residents, a local air quality group, has prevailed over the San Joaquin Valley Air District. They got the state appeals court to rule in their favor regarding the inadequacy of a rule regulating large dairies...
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Worse Air Than LA
The San Joaquin Valley beat LA again for worst air in the nation. Barring a November heat wave, the ozone season has finally come to a close with us in first place.
This link will show you the numbers. We had, unofficially, 127 violations of the...
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Air Got Even Worse !!
From Friday through Sunday, the air quality in the San Joaquin Valley was being polluted seriously by all three of the major categories of contaminants which are ozone, dust (PM 10), and ultra-fine particulate matter (PM 2.5).
The last two days (Monday and Tuesday)...
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Triple Whammy !!!
The San Joaquin Valley has violated the federal ozone standard the past three days with a high yesterday (10.26.08) of 84 parts per billion. The standard is 75 ppb.
We are also experiencing violations the past few days of the federal standard for PM 2.5 caused by...
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No Improvement This Year
There are many ways to compare air quality from year to year. One way is to look at "good" days vs. "very unhealthy" days which are the extremes in our air quality forecasts.
Last summer (June 22 to September 22, 2007) we had zero...
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Harvest Time is Choke Time
When the mega dairies start harvesting the corn fields for silage the resulting truck traffic on country roads is really scary. The dust billows and the old trucks are belching diesel pollution. Add the coinciding almond harvest and the dusty haze...
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Article Not Quite Accurate
Today's tragic Californian story on the football player's death is well written and researched except for one fact.
quote from article: Based on air quality that day — in a range unhealthy for sensitive groups — the San Joaquin Valley...
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What are we doing to our youth?
Making 14 to 18 year old boys and girls practice football and cross country is ok when the temperature is over 100. It is not ok when the air quality is unhealthy as it was this past week.
The ozone levels we experienced were well above the federal...
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Air District Not Doing Job
We had promises of steady and continued improvement two years ago. We also had promises of attainment of the federal health standard by 2024 which was too long in many peoples' minds. They didn't tell us our air would actually get worse before it...
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We make our own mess.
The graph of yearly violations of the 8 hour ozone standard for Shafter, Bakersfield, and Arvin seems to show Bakersfield is the source of Arvin's pollution and Shafter is fortunate to be upwind.
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But You Don't Have to Leave Kern County
It is perhaps ironic that you can move closer to some of the factory dairies in Kern County and breathe cleaner air.
The Air Resources Board has historical data on air quality which was recently published in an easy to read format in the Fresno...
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Heat stabilized air quality
By Sarah Ruby
When mercury rises, air pollution doesn't necessarily follow.
Consider the recent heat wave. Temperatures soared to a high of 116 degrees in parts of Kern County, yet the air did not get appreciably worse. In some cases, the air was better than it...
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