I read with wonder and disgust the ads asking folks in Butte County to please check before using their wood stoves for heat. I totally understand the air board wanting clean, safe air for the valley's residents. It's what we pay them to do. But what I totally don't understand is allowing farmers to pollute the air of hundreds of thousands of people in the same geographical areas.
Am I missing something here? They can gross pollute the air throughout the area, so every living thing must breathe their polluted smoke, but the air board disallows families to use wood stoves. Who is running this agency? Obviously, money talks louder than people's health.
— Mary Harris, Oroville