The other part of my life: Homicide Investigation School for Crime Writers
I'm a real straight-arrow so I never get to meet the "nose-pickin', booger-eatin' morons" that Sgt Derek Pacifico talked about in his Homicide Investigation school for Crime Writers last weekend in...
Chemical Waste Management Slapped Down Again
Cal EPA and the California Department of Toxic Substances Control has hit Chemical Waste Management with yet another fine, this time for $400,000 and an order to purchase $600,000 worth of new equipment to properly test the hazardous substances they’re processing. Have they taken down their website? I can’t find it. If I were running the place, I’d be hiding my head in…
Do we just say oh, well, and throw up our hands in defeat?
Midas or methyl iodide is used to kill every living thing in the soil to prepare the ground to grow strawberries and peppers, tomatoes, even roses. "The first commercial applications of MIDAS soil...
Who you read … what you believe …
I opened my August 7th copy of the Los Angeles Times and was delighted to see the Times focusing some attention on the Central Valley. See Victor Davis Hanson's piece entitled Follow the water: The...
They’re Fed Up in Arvin and Doing Something About It
You may remember from a previous post that the California Air Resources Board relocated an air monitor which had been collecting data for the last 20 years. Results showed that Arvin had the worst...
Costa Believes It: Therefore It’s True
Former Senator Moynahan said once: “You are entitled to your own opinion...but you are not entitled to your own facts.” Political scientists at the research-renowned University of Michigan...
When the Game Gets Too Close Move the Goalposts
In short, an air monitoring site showing the highest rates of ozone pollution in the Valley--in Arvin--was moved so that the readings make the job the state agency is doing look better. The air...
Report Fuels the Water Wars
Claims that EPA environmental restrictions have caused more fallow land and the loss of jobs in the San Joaquin Valley have been watered down by a new study. The most recent drought hit California...
Kettleman City Finally Gets Water Treatment Plant. Two Years from Now …
Pour yourself a glass of water from the tap in Kettleman city and you'll find it's often yellow and smells of rotten eggs. That would be off-putting enough, but arsenic and benzene levels also make...
