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Article: A Dust Storm Brewing.
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- Farm Journal
- Article date:
- November 2, 2004
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Byline: Darrell Smith
Fast Facts
* Farmers in California's San Joaquin Valley found to be in a "non-attainment" area where air does not meet EPA standards must implement practices to control dust particles of 10 micrometers in diameter-about one-seventh the diameter of a human hair-or smaller.
* Every farmer in the U.S. is required to meet that same National Ambient Air Quality Standard for coarse particulates; but the standard has rarely been enforced against individual farming operations.
* A number of health experts have testified that there is no need to regulate coarse particulates because there's no evidence of substantial ...