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The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District is the primary regulator for the region and has taken various actions to improve air quality and meet the standards of the CAA. The District adopted a PM 10 Attainment Demonstration Plan in 2006, an Ozone Attainment Demonstration Plan in 2007 and a PM 2.5 Attainment Demonstration Plan in ...
California’s eco-bureaucrats halted a wildfire prevention project near the Pacific Palisades to protect an endangered shrub. It’s just the latest clash between fire safety and conservation in ...
A view of Los Angeles covered in smog. Pollution in California relates to the degree of pollution in the air, water, and land of the U.S. state of California.Pollution is defined as the addition of any substance (solid, liquid, or gas) or any form of energy (such as heat, sound, or radioactivity) to the environment at a faster rate than it can be dispersed, diluted, decomposed, recycled, or ...
Since January 2009, all new vehicles sold in California have been required to be labeled with a California Air Resources Board window sticker showing both a Smog Score and a Global Warming Score. The scores are on a 1–10 scale, with 5 being average and with 10 being the best (i.e., emitting the least carbon dioxide).
Tensions are rising in California’s agricultural heartland over state subsidies for manure-based biogas that are meant to help reduce planet-warming emissions but that environmental groups and ...
One of four large air pumps at the wastewater treatment plant. The San José–Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility (abbreviated RWF; officially the San Jose/Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plant [1]) is a wastewater treatment plant located in the Alviso neighborhood of San Jose, California.
A team of Southern California economists recently published a study that found the federal government could drastically reduce aviation emissions by offering to pay airlines to scrap aging ...
The table grape and wine grape sectors are represented by the [98] and the California Association of Winegrape Growers. [99] Table production is most concentrated in three counties and somewhat in another two. [100] Dollar value annually is $1,240 million in Kern, $682 in Tulare, $416 in Fresno, and in the top ten crops in Riverside and Madera ...