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C.-Y. C. Lin, “An Assessment of the Effectiveness of California’s Local Air Pollution Controls on Agricultural Sources,” In: M. Khallaf, Ed., The Impact of Air Pollution on Health, Economy, Environment and Agricultural Sources, InTech—Open Access Publisher, Manhattan, 2011.

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• TITLE: California’s Agriculture-Related Local Air Pollution Policy

  AUTHORS: C.-Y. Cynthia Lin

  KEYWORDS: Air Quality; Air Pollution; Pollution Control; Agriculture

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Environmental Protection, Vol.4 No.8A, August 8, 2013

  ABSTRACT: Air pollution is a critical environmental issue for California, which has some of the nation’s most polluted air basins and also the nation’s most stringent set of state and local air quality standards. This paper reviews my previous work in Lin (2011), in which I examine the effects of agriculture-related local regulations in California on air quality, as measured by the number of exceedances of the CO and NO2 standards, by exploiting the natural variation in policy among the different air districts in California. Agricultural burning policies and penalty fees reduce the pollution from CO. Other policies such as the prohibition on visible emission, fugitive dust, particulate matter, nitrogen and the reduction of animal matter are correlated with higher levels of CO. Regulations on orchard and citrus heaters have no significant effect on the number of exceedances of the CO and NO2 standards.