More calls from rural counties to thin out the forests. The Rural County Representatives of California not only have been pushing the issue, to reduce the wildfire danger. They say it would also reduce air pollution. But Nevada County’s representative, Supervisor Nate Beason, says the California Air Resources Board has delayed including the black carbon emissions from the growing number of wildfires, as part of its Short-Lived Climate Pollution Reduction Strategy…

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Beason says rural counties are recommending that the Air Pollution Board work with the Department of Forestry and other state and federal partners more effectively…

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Governor Brown recently sought federal aid to remove dead trees and called for more controlled burns, to reduce the risk of wildfire.