Farming May Get Bum Rap for Dust Pollution
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From Times Wire Reports
A federal air-quality researcher said agriculture may be shouldering too much of the blame for dust-borne pollution.
Engineer Michael Buser of the Agriculture Research Service in Lubbock, Texas, said federal air sampling equipment has been capturing dust particles that are too large to be considered particulate pollution, and so it has overstated the amount of pollution in the dust raised by activities such as tilling and running feedlots.
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