Litigation
Mar. 10, 2012
L.A. balks over clean up of Owens Valley dust storms
A long running legal battle over dust storms in the Owens Valley is heating up.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
For decades, as the wind swept into the Owens Valley and over its dried lakebed, it whipped up dust storms so bad people would shutter themselves indoors, unable to see or breathe clearly. The 110-square mile Owens Lake bed is one of the largest single sources of fine particle pollution in the country - with, at its worst, 80,000 tons of dust clogging the skies every year.
The problem turned into a bi...
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