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Fly Solution?   If, like me, you live a few miles from several of those newly arrived factory-run-mega-dairies, you may have noticed more flies than usual during the spring, summer, and fall.  These dairies weren't around a few years ago and many people around me think the flies are...
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Food safety investigators have concluded that a Kern County farm is responsible for an e. coli outbreak in late 2006 that sickened more than 80 people in Iowa and Minnesota. Tainted lettuce served by Taco John’s locations in Iowa and Minnesota was grown at the Wegis Ranch in Buttonwillow,...
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Six Straight Days Above Federal Standard   Sunday was the worst as it was approaching record highs for ammonium nitrate levels.  I heard a weatherman say on the radio that it was a nice sunny day with blue skies.  He should have said if you want to see blue skies, go to the...
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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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Particulate Pollution Worst Around Midnight Christmas carolers and pub crawlers with asthma or heart problems should stay out of the midnight air these days.  The ammonium nitrate levels are most often peaking around the witching hour during the winter season.   In Fresno, on...
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Unregulated Ammonia Emissions are to Blame PM 2.5 measurements for November have never been worse.  Compared to just a year ago, there was a 66% increase in average 24 hour readings of the deadly particulates this past month.  The graph shows the comparison between this November...
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PM 2.5 Readings Off the Chart Again After only 4 days of healthful air, PM 2.5 levels have skyrocketed to nearly 3 times the federally mandated level for good health.  We recently finished an almost unprecendented spell of lousy air quality the first 8 days of November.  During...
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OK, you can breathe again. After 160 straight hours of unhealthy air we got relief last night at 10 pm in the form of a weak low pressure system moving through.  This was some kind of record for bad air that the air district must be really puzzling about. The problem was PM 2.5 made...
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