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| San Joaquin Valley Air Quality |
Last weekend, the most corrosive air of summer descended on northwest Fresno — the kind of lung-searing day that would crack the rubber band on your newspaper if you left it on the driveway.
The usual suspects in this kind of ozone siege are stifling heat, traffic and fires. It was a weekend, so commute pollution was not as bad. But Fresno was a stagnant 103 degrees, Sierra Nevada wildfires had burned for days and dirty air hung in the sweltering Valley.
As bad as that sounds, it may not be the whole story, local air leaders say. Global pollution may be helping to create those dirty-air days.
They say evidence points to plumes of pollution from China and eastern Asia, thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean.
The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District has contributed about $200,000 to help study it. The research is led by federal agencies, such as NOAA and NASA, as well as the University of California at Davis.....
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Original Source:
Mark Grossi, Fresno Bee
September 20, 2014
http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/09/20/4136058/chinas-polluted-air-may-have-affected.html?
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