LA Weekly

The Smog Blog is reporting this morning that, after several days of deteriorating air quality, Fresno is under code red. Most of the "haze" is particulate matter -- dust and smoke from farms and their trucks.

Big agriculture and industry been fighting efforts to clean up the San Joquin Valley's air quality for years (with some help, it seems, from the San Joquin Valley Air Pollution Control District), on the grounds that it's bad for the region's business climate.

I like the American Lung Association's slogan: "When you can't breathe, nothing else matters."

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