Air Quality

Cal/OSHA reminds employers to protect outdoor workers from heat illness and exposure to harmful wildfire smoke and is hosting a webinar and training sessions this week to help employers plan for [...]

The Valley Farm Bureau SHARE and the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control Board is hosting a whole orchard recycling and mastication demonstration in Exeter on March 1 at 10 a.m. to 12 Noon.  [...]

Incentive funds are now available to assist growers in transitioning to alternative practices for orchard removal.  A new incentive program is available through the San Joaquin Valley Air [...]

Cal/OSHA issued a News Release reminding employers to make preparations to protect workers from unhealthy air due to wildfire smoke.  Per the Cal/OSHA Wildfire Smoke Protection Regulation, [...]

The Ventura County Agriculture Commissioner in partnership with the Ventura County Air Pollution Control District and CAUSE have launched a free text message notification system to alert the [...]

Agricultural Burning will soon be prohibited in the San Joaquin Valley.  The Air District is required by law to expedite the phase out of agricultural burning beginning in September 2021 and ban [...]

The Valley Air District invites you to attend an informational webinar to notify Valley farmers about upcoming open burning prohibitions impacting San Joaquin Valley vineyards, citrus, nut crop, [...]

The California Air Resources Board has directed a phase-out of agricultural burning in the San Joaquin Valley. To assist farmers in achieving this goal, the Valley Air District’s [...]

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) today unanimously approved a plan to phase out agricultural burning in the San Joaquin Valley by 2025.  As previously reported, CCM staff worked with the [...]

On February 25, 2021, the California Air Resources Board will consider a proposal to phase out agricultural burning in the San Joaquin Valley.  As required by SB 702, in December 2020 the San [...]