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Air Pollution Complaint Lines
Kern, Tulare Counties
(800) 926-5550
Merced,
Stanislaus
San Joaquin, Counties
(800) 281-7003
Fresno, Kings, Madera Counties
(800) 870-1037
Last Updated
January 17, 2003 |
The Kern County Greens are active,
and our numbers are growing!
Less than 700 Kern County residents voted for a Green Party
candidate in the 2000 elections. In the November 2002 elections,
more than 4,000 Kern County residents voted for at least one Green
Party candidate. That's an almost 600% increase. Clearly
Kern County is ready for Green Politics.
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Kern County currently has the worst
air quality in the nation.
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Kern residents are regularly subjected to
agricultural chemicals in our land, air and ground water.
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Kern ranks among the country's worst 10% of counties in cancer risk
from air pollutants, toxic chemical releases to land, and amount of
pollution from animal wastes. We need to get off those top ten
lists.
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Kern’s unemployment rate averages double
the rate for California.
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Local legislators continuously cater to big
business, including industrial agribusiness, at the expense of our
local environment and quality of life.
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Employment and housing discrimination based
on ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, national origin, and religion
are routinely overlooked or justified by local lawmakers.
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Kern’s mass transit systems are woefully
inadequate for the expansive area encompassed by the county, and city
and county planners can’t agree on solutions for improvement.
It’s time for a change in Kern County and
our country as a whole. We can no longer afford to ignore the issues of
our environment, social justice, and community based economics.
Are you interested in organizing the
Greens in YOUR Kern County community? Drop us a line at the email
address below. You can also join the Kern Greens email list-serve
(below) and participate in the county-wide discussions. We look forward
to hearing from you!
What Does That Air Quality Index Really
Mean?
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Index
Values
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Air
Quality
Description
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Health
Cautionary Statement
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0-50 |
Good |
No Limitations |
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51 - 100
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Moderate |
Extremely sensitive children and adults,
especially with respiratory diseases such as
asthma, should consider limiting outdoor
exertion.
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101-150 |
Unhealthy For
Sensitive Groups |
Sensitive children, adults and
especially those with respiratory diseases such as asthma, should
limit prolonged outdoor exertion.
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151-200 |
Unhealthy |
Sensitive children and adults
should avoid outdoor exertion and everyone else should limit
prolonged outdoor exertion during peak ozone periods.
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201-300 |
Very Unhealthy |
Sensitive children and adults
should avoid outdoor activities and remain indoors. Everyone else
should avoid outdoor exertion.
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Over 300 |
Hazardous |
Everyone, especially children,
should avoid outdoor activities and remain indoors.
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CSUB Campus Greens
California State University Bakersfield
If you would
like to be added to the
CSUB Campus
Greens group, send an email to
Monica
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