California’s Water-Saving Policies Could Start a Mini Dust Bowl
The Atlantic, 10 September 2022
High Country News, 8 September 2022
“the prospect of increased particulate matter is particularly worrisome because it threatens recent improvements to air quality. During the last 20 years, significant progress had been made in cleaning the valley’s air, mostly by addressing the dust from active agricultural operations. Nearly $13 million was spent on replacing outdated nut harvesters, which blew dirt and debris off nuts in large air plumes, for example. Now, if retired agricultural lands aren’t proactively managed to control dust, said Ayres, ‘those air quality gains could be undone.’”
The Atlantic, 10 September 2022
High Country News, 8 September 2022
“the prospect of increased particulate matter is particularly worrisome because it threatens recent improvements to air quality. During the last 20 years, significant progress had been made in cleaning the valley’s air, mostly by addressing the dust from active agricultural operations. Nearly $13 million was spent on replacing outdated nut harvesters, which blew dirt and debris off nuts in large air plumes, for example. Now, if retired agricultural lands aren’t proactively managed to control dust, said Ayres, ‘those air quality gains could be undone.’”