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    CALIFORNIA POWER SHUTDOWNS RAISE AIR POLLUTION WORRIES

    Oct 18, 2019 3 minutes
    Image: Randy Vazquez

    Power shutdowns intended to prevent more devastating California wildfires are raising new concerns about another longstanding environmental threat: air pollution.

    As utilities halted service to more than 2 million people this week, lines formed at hardware stores selling portable generators, while many hospitals and businesses fired up their own. The prospect of emissions belching from untold numbers of the machines, some powered by diesel and gasoline as well as propane and natural gas, was troubling in a state already burdened with

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