1/25/07
If "all we are is dust in the wind" why worry about clean air standards to protect our health?
On September 21st, 2006 the EPA announced they would maintain the standard for windblown dust – a victory for Mono Lake after the original proposal would have eliminated the coarse particulate standard for rural and windblown dust in the Mono Basin. That victory is now facing new challenges as the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association is filing suit against the EPA to overturn the dust standard, or as the Cattlemen say ‘Dust in the Wind.’
By likening rural and windblown dust to Kansas’s hit song “Dust in the Wind” do the Cattlemen think maintaining clean air is futile?
The Mono Lake Committee is watching this lawsuit and is
prepared to weigh in as opportunities arise. Contact Geoff McQuilkin (
)
for more information, or continue to look for
updates and background on this Website.
Dust blowing off the Mono Lake
playa--exposed by excessive water diversions to Los Angeles
during the middle of the 20th century. Federal air quality regulations require
Los Angeles to allow
enough water to flow into Mono Lake so that it rises and covers this
dust-producing area.
Arya Degenhardt Photo 1/20/07
"Dust in the Wind"
(Kansas song, romantic Old West mystique, or toxic to your lungs?)
Arya Degenhardt Photo 1/20/07
Dune Babies
Arya Degenhardt Photo 1/20/07
I close my eyes
Only for a moment, then the moment's gone
All my dreams
Pass before my eyes, a curiosity
Dust in the wind
All they are is dust in the wind
Same old song
Just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do
Crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind, ohh
Now, don't hang on
Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away
And all your money won't another minute buy
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
Dust in the wind
Everything is dust in the wind
Everything is dust in the wind
The wind
- Kansas -
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