By Tom Frantz Three significant events took place recently that should improve the quality of life for residents in the San Joaquin Valley. First, the Central Valley Air Quality Coalition (CVAQ) [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air
Clearing the Air
By Tom Frantz The 2018 SJV State of the Air Report is not the American Lung Association annual report, which goes by a similar name. In that report, ozone and particulate pollution are separated [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air
By Tom Frantz The 2018 SJV State of the Air Report is not the American Lung Association annual report, which goes by a similar name. In that report, ozone and particulate pollution are separated [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: New Year’s Resolutions
By Tom Frantz The new year is a time to make amends for past failures and determine better courses for the future. Our Valley air board should do so. What better action could there be than for the [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Mary Nichols, please help us!
By Tom Frantz In 1989, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) placed an air quality ozone monitor on the east side of Arvin. It was built into a shipping container and placed in the yard of the [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Open Letter to the Almond Board
By Tom Frantz A letter was recently sent to the Almond Board of California by several Valley groups. These groups include the Kern-Kaweah chapter of the Sierra Club, the Central Valley Air Quality [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Why Is the Obvious So Difficult?
By Tom Frantz The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District is not doing its job. It refuses to take serious its chief function as a health agency protecting the breathing public. It [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Cheap, Reliable Air Monitoring at Home
By Tom Frantz Personal air monitoring has been gaining popularity in the San Joaquin Valley. Many people have recently installed a fine particulate monitor from a company called PurpleAir. At a cost [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Poor Air Quality Is Causing Diabetes
By Tom Frantz This article is about diabetes. Diabetes is related to air quality because fine particulate matter pollution (PM2.5) has been recently proven, without a doubt, to be a significant cause [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Combustion Is the Problem
By Tom Frantz Air pollution in the San Joaquin Valley is described many different ways. For example, there are two basic types of pollution, three classes of chemicals that form it and several [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Wrong Way to Clean the Air
By Tom Frantz The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (air district) is considering a hot-spot strategy to address pollution from residential wood burning and restaurant charbroiling. [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Valley Fever
By Tom Frantz The last three years have seen rapidly increasing cases of Valley Fever in the San Joaquin Valley (SJV). Recent growth in the Valley is 150%, whereas Southern California saw a 75% [...] Continue Reading