Fresno Bee: In the wake of the drought, many orchards now dead wood Open-field burning may increase as biomass plants close AB 590 would keep biomass plants going with millions of state dollars In drought-wounded Terra Bella, Kent Duysen says he has seen the plumes of smoke recently farm-waste burning linked to both the devastating dry time and a faltering biomass energy industry. The San Joaquin Valleys tainted air might be getting an extra dose of soot and ozone-forming gases this spring as...