L.A. Smog Causes Desert Bus Company to Try Alternative
THOUSAND PALMS, Calif. — A transit company in the California desert is a hot spot for alternative fuel research.
Dick Cromwell, general manager of SunLine Transit Agency in Palm Springs, doesn’t like the smog. It’s not good for either agriculture or tourism, the valley’s two main income sources. There’s not much he can do to prevent the smog from Los Angeles, but he can do something to ensure that Coachella Valley doesn’t add to the problem.
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A driver coming over the 8,000 foot-high San Jacinto Mountains into the Coachella Valley, home of Palm Springs and half a dozen other Southern California desert communities, may be surprised sometimes to see a thick layer of smog hanging over the valley.
The smog comes from Los Angeles, blown in by winds that carry the yellow layer 120 miles through canyons and mountain passes, until the effluent spreads over the valley. It wasn’t made there, but there it sits until the winds blow it somewhere else.
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