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Climate Change Threatens Already Poor Air Quality in California’s Central Valley

Union of Concerned Scientists

For years, state and local air quality districts have implemented polices and regulations aimed at curbing these different sources of pollution, like working to phase out burning as a method of disposing of agricultural waste, incentivizing transitions to gas-powered heat, and creating regulations to limit vehicle pollution.

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Do We Dare Continue to Flare?

Vermont Law

1) The EPA permits states to draft and execute regulations to satisfy national standards in most circumstances. (2) Along with Carbon dioxide and Methane, particle pollution such as particulate matter and nitrogen oxides are examples of pollutants discharged into the atmosphere from flaring. (26) Turner, Jr.