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Are Residents in Danger of Higher Pollution Rates from the Judge's Ruling?
The answer is absolutely not. The rule (4570) which a Judge recently rescinded did nothing to decrease VOC emissions at dairies. It only put into rule form common practices at dairies which are good...
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Interesting Research for Kern County
Since 2001, Kern County has seen an increase of over 100,000 dairy animals due to our supervisors agreeing to give out dozens of dairy permits without environmental review in the late 1990's. Has this had any effect on infant...
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EPA Fails to Protect Public Health
This article just came out on the Associated Press Newswire:
Clean Air activists sue EPA over pollution rules
Thursday, December 18, 2008
(12-18) 15:08 PST SHAFTER, CA (AP) --
A community group in the southern San Joaquin Valley is suing the U.S....
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Q: People living in the Rosedale area are very lucky that anytime they smell the bad odor they can tell immediately that the culprit is the refinery. The problem is addressed immediately.
However, people in the southwest Bakersfield area, particularly in the vicinity of Panama Lane, are...
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Bakersfield and its surrounding burgs have long been known for long being stinky. It's not the unwashed masses lining up at Jerry's on a Friday night causing this funk, but rather those smelly beasts we all like carved up on our tables every Sunday ... and Monday and Tuesday, etc.
Our dairies...
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Beautiful Skies?
We make the brown haze we live in. Let there be no doubt. We also need to take personal responsibility for it as valley residents and businesses. It is costing us more in health related problems than it would cost to clean up. ...
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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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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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