Kerry Klein

In their new plan to ban agricultural burning, air regulators are using outreach and financial incentives to convince growers to adopt an alternative known as whole orchard recycling.

Even with $220 million in financial incentives, growers are wondering how they’ll afford whole orchard recycling in the long term – especially small farmers, who have fewer resources to begin with.

A California senator set out to ban agricultural burning in the San Joaquin Valley nearly 20 years ago. What happened?

Clean air advocates hope the EPA will step in to strengthen regulations of polluting industries.

Nearly two decades of postponing a ban on burning have left clean air advocates dubious that local air regulators will follow through.

Long-term exposure to the particulate matter released by open agricultural burning has been associated with a suite of health problems, and the communities most affected are majority-Latino.

Although still unknown outside of the American west, valley fever is a severe fungal infection — and its territory may expand as the climate warms.

Researchers have been trying to understand valley fever for decades, but the playing field remained small until recently.

Former California Gov. Jerry Brown pledged $8 million in state money to fight valley fever in the final 2018-2019 budget, split between the University of California and the new Valley Fever Institute.

‘Eureka moment’ in valley fever case paves way for new research, treatment options.