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The county is regulating environmental impacts, requiring that companies take steps to reduce air pollution, said Lorelei Oviatt, director of the county’s Planning and Natural Resources Department.
California has 22 APCDs, 12 AQMDs and 1 Air Resources District for a total of 35 districts: Amador County APCD (all of Amador County) Antelope Valley AQMD (Northeast portion of Los Angeles County) Bay Area AQMD (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, western portion of Solano, southern portion of Sonoma ...
Tejon Indian Tribe. The Tejon Indian Tribe is a federally recognized tribe [3] of Kitanemuk, Yokuts, Paiute and Chumash Indigenous people of California . Their ancestral homeland is the southern San Joaquin Valley, San Emigdio Mountains, and Tehachapi Mountains. Today they live in Kern County, California. [2]
Indian Wells Valley, showing Ridgecrest, California and the China Lake area. China Lake is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California. [ 1] It is located 2.5 miles (4 km) north-northeast of Ridgecrest, [ 2] at an elevation of 2,264 feet (690 m). [ 1] The place is on China Lake, a dry lake on the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake.
Buttonwillow [3] is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in the San Joaquin Valley, in Kern County, California.Buttonwillow is 26 miles (42 km) west of Bakersfield, [3] at an elevation of 269 feet (82 m)). [2]
The 38,000-acre Borel fire in Kern County has leveled the tiny, historic mining town of Havilah. "We lost everything — it's all gone," Havilah resident Sean Rains told The Times on Sunday. "This ...
The Kern County Fire Department (KCFD) is an agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the county of Kern, California, USA. Over 625 permanent employees and 100 extra help employees protect an area which spans over 8,000 square miles (21,000 km 2 ).
Environmental health is the branch of public health concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment affecting human health. To effectively control factors that may affect health, the requirements that must be met to create a healthy environment must be determined. [ 1] The major sub-disciplines of environmental health are ...