air quality Archives

Don’t Light Tonight Season Began Nov 2020

by Special Contributor December 30, 2020

November 1st marked the start of Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District Don’t Light Tonight season, the District’s voluntary program encouraging residents to not burn wood on days where air quality forecasts for particulate matter are above 25 micrograms per cubic meter, or an AQI of…

Community, Consumption, Energy

Consumer, industrial products overtake cars as source of air pollution

by Special Contributor February 28, 2018

Consumer products such as shampoo, cleaning products and paint now contribute as much to urban air pollution as tailpipe emissions from vehicles, according to a new study led by NOAA and including researchers at UC Davis. The results were published on Feb. 16 in the…

Consumption, Transportation, UC Davis

Why You Shouldn’t Burn Wood This Winter

by Special Contributor January 31, 2018

Crossposted from the Davis Vanguard January 31, 2018. As winter settles in Yolo and Solano County, so does cooler temperatures, brisk mornings and often, the smell of wood smoke permeating the air. Many people associate cold weather with a crackling fireplace and a cup of…

Coalition, Energy