Air quality and the Oceano Dunes
This is a multi-part series about questionable activities of the San Luis Obispo County Air Quality Control District.
It sounded like a good idea. Fine the Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area for allowing particulate pollution caused by recreational vehicles. The San Luis Obispo County Air Pollution Control Board would impose a rule with the fines based on a study of how much dust was raised by the off-roading.
But critics say that the study is flawed.
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PDFState parks spending $1 million to fence Oceano dunes
California state parks is spending $1 million to erect 15 acres of fences in the Oceano dunes off-road vehicles area to slow the flow of dust into nearby residences. [KEYT] For several years, state parks has battled the San Luis Obispo County Air Pollution Control District over regulating dust that blows out of the dunes […]... (Continue Reading)
SLO APCD board approves annual fees on state parks
The San Luis Obispo County Air Pollution Control District (APCD) board approved nearly $50,000 of annual fees Thursday to be levied upon the California Department of Parks and Recreation as part of a controversial effort to reduce dust blowing from the Oceano Dunes to the Nipomo Mesa. In 2011, the APCD board adopted the Oceano […]... (Continue Reading)
Missing APCD board members spotted
Two San Luis Obispo County supervisors who claimed that they were unable to attend an Air Pollution Control District Board meeting Wednesday morning were spotted at a gathering that afternoon in Pismo Beach. Supervisors Bruce Gibson and Adam Hill, who both said they could not make it to the APCD board meeting earlier in the […]... (Continue Reading)
Judge rules against two suits over APCD dust rule
A San Luis Obispo Superior Court judge has ruled against two legal challenges to the San Luis Obispo County Air Pollution Control District’s Oceano Dunes dust rule. Judge Charles Crandall rejected the requests made by Friends of Oceano Dunes, an organization that supports off-road vehicle activity at the beach, and Kevin Rice, a San Luis […]... (Continue Reading)
Oceano dust rule in court
A San Luis Obispo County Superior Court judge heard arguments for and against the controversial dust rule that requires state parks to reduce particulate matter blowing from the Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area or face fines of $1,000 per day. Lawyers for the California Department of Parks and Recreation and the California Attorney General […]... (Continue Reading)
California Attorney General files lawsuit against local air district
EDITOR’S NOTE: See a brief of the California Attorney General’s lawsuit at the bottom of this story. By KAREN VELIE California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris filed a lawsuit in mid-October against the San Luis Obispo County Air Pollution Control District (APCD) over its contentious Oceano Dunes dust rule, focusing on the alleged scientific flaws […]... (Continue Reading)
Air board seeks help from Sacramento on implementing dust rule
The San Luis Obispo County Air Pollution Control District Board decided Wednesday to go around State Parks and seek help from the Governor’s Cabinet in implementing its Oceano dunes dust rule. [SLO Tribune] District officials have accused State Parks of not cooperating in the implementation of the dust rule, which requires the agency to reduce […]... (Continue Reading)
Second lawsuit filed against the air quality district
A San Luis Obispo man filed a second lawsuit against the air quality district over its contentious Oceano Dunes dust rule, this one focusing on alleged procedural errors. The lawsuit, filed by Kevin Rice on Tuesday, charges the air quality district with failing to follow California laws when it passed a rule that requires state parks to reduce particulate matter blowing... (Continue Reading)
Air pollution control board approves Oceano dunes rule
The San Luis Obispo County Air Pollution Control District voted 7-4 with one abstention to approve a new regulation that requires state parks to reduce particulate matter blowing from the Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area or face fines of $1,000 per day. The APCD contends evidence from a scientific study it produced show that […]... (Continue Reading)
Air quality district internal emails expose manipulations
(Editor’s note: This is the second in a multi-part series about questionable activities of the San Luis Obispo County Air Quality Control District. Part one was Air quality district’s bloated salaries. See Alleged flaws in the study at the bottom of this story) It sounded like a good idea. Fine the Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area for allowing particulate pollution... (Continue Reading)
