DUSTBUSTERS RECEIVE GRANT.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer Antelope Valley officials who successfully reduced dust storms that plagued the valley in the early 1990s will receive a $100,000 state grant to study how best to use plants to keep dust from blowing off abandoned farms, officials announced Friday. The grant, provided by the California Air Resources Board California Air Resources Board (CARB) is the "clean air agency" of the state of California in the United States. Established originally in 1967, it is a part of the California Environmental Protection Agency, an organization which reports directly to the California to the Antelope Valley Dustbusters Task Force, will fund plant research conducted by University of California, Riverside The University of California, Riverside, commonly known as UCR or UC Riverside, is a public research university and one of ten campuses of the University of California system. , staffers at the Kearney Agricultural Research Station in Parlier in the San Joaquin Valley Noun 1. San Joaquin Valley - a vast valley in central California known for its rich farmland Calif., California, Golden State, CA - a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes . ``The final product of the Dustbusters' research effort will be a `cookbook' of dust suppression methods tailored for effective use on disturbed, arid environments,'' the Antelope Valley Air Pollution Control District said in announcing the award of the grant. ``It is anticipated that the Dustbusters' research will yield benefits to other regions in California impacted by the effects of blowing dust.'' The Dustbusters coalition of government agencies and other organizations was created in the early 1990s to find ways to cut down windblown dust. The coalition includes the Antelope Valley Air Pollution Control District, the Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District, Los Angeles World Airports Los Angeles World Airports or LAWA is the airport oversight and operations department for the city of Los Angeles, California. This department owns and operates Los Angeles International Airport, LA/Ontario International Airport, Palmdale Regional Airport, and Van , San Diego State University San Diego State University (SDSU), founded in 1897 as San Diego Normal School, is the largest and oldest higher education facility in the greater San Diego area (generally the City and County of San Diego), and is part of the California State University system. , South Coast AQMD, Southern California Edison Southern California Edison (or SCE Corp), the largest subsidiary of Edison International (NYSE: EIX), is the primary electricity supply company for much of Southern California. It provides 11 million people with electricity. , the University of California, Riverside, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Resources Conservation Service. The Dustbusters' task force was created after the early '90s drought killed off nonnative vegetation on fallow farmlands, letting valley winds stir up giant dust clouds that turned the sky yellow and contributed to chain-reaction crashes. Seeding programs spearheaded by the Dustbusters and a return to wetter weather curtailed the dust storms. |
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