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Right to Smoke
December 16th, 2009 Filed Under Blog
Does this indicate the direction we might be headed? Should we have a right to emit smoke law similar to our right to burn law?
Forest Service fined for Yakima Valley smoke
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
YAKIMA, Wash. — The Yakima Regional Clean Air Agency has fined the Forest Service $12,000 for smoke from a Sept. 28 controlled burn that drifted toward Yakima when the wind shifted.
The agency says the Naches Ranger District failed to assure that future burns don’t compromise air quality.
An agency spokesman, Cave Caprile, says it’s treating the Forest Service as it would anyone else. Forest Service officials don’t believe the Yakima agency has the authority to regulate smoke from their fires.
District Ranger Randall Shepard told The Yakima Herald-Republic rangers acted in good faith and received approval for the burn from the state Department of Natural Resources.
At least 17 residents of Tieton, Selah and Yakima complained about the smoke.
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