The Valley air district has distributed hundreds of millions of dollars in public funds to help farmers upgrade tractors to newer, cleaner burning machines. But despite hefty grants, the programs are inaccessible to many small farmers, and ag equipment still contributes to the Valley’s smog problem.
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Sideswipe: December 17: Separated at birth
16 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
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Sir Elton John / ex-US Attorney General William Barr. (Suggested by Renton Brown of Pukekohe)
Tobacco And asbestos in a cigarette In 1952, in response to growing concerns about the safety of cigarettes, the Lorillard Tobacco Company introduced Kent cigarettes, boasting that they contained a Micronite filter developed by researchers in atomic energy plants . Turned out that the key ingredient in the filter was asbestos. From Wikipedia: Kent widely touted its famous micronite filter and promised consumers the greatest health protection in history . Sales of Kent skyrocketed, and it has been estimated that in Kent s first four years on the market, Lorillard sold some 13 billion Kent cigarettes. From March 1952 until at least May 1956, however, the Micronite filter in Kent cigarettes contained compressed carcinogenic blue asbestos within the crimped crepe paper. It has been
As US deaths approach 300,000, obituaries force reckoning with COVID
By Julie Bosman New York Times,Updated December 13, 2020, 10:29 p.m.
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Preparations for a funeral at Adolf Funeral Home & Cremation Services in Willowbrook, Ill., on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020.LUCY HEWETT/NYT
CHICAGO â When Kim Miller sat down in her Illinois house to compose her husbandâs obituary, she could not hold back.
Not about the coronavirus that had left Scott, her fit, healthy spouse who loved to swim, golf and putter in the garden, gasping for breath and unable to move his limbs as he stood at the kitchen counter. Not about what had killed him swiftly and cruelly in only a few days.