“This valley supplied everything we needed ... been carrying out extensive dust mitigation projects on the dry lakebed at Owens Lake, and has invested about $2.5 billion in the efforts.

We’re driving down a road 200 miles from Los Angeles, in the Owens Valley ... blowing off a dry lake bed to the south. The cloud contains microscopic particles of nickel, cadmium and arsenic ...

northeast of Bishop in the Owens Valley. By Monday morning, it had churned through nearly 2 square miles of dry brush, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection ...