date:Sep 26, 2012
Sandwiched between paved-road dust and diesel truck emissions is the second-biggest producer of particle pollution in Southern California: the charbroiled burger.
While it may be hard to imagine the all-beef patty as an environmental menace, air-quality regulators have long known that the smoke from burgers cooked on grills can spew 14 tons of microscopic, lung-damaging particles each day into the region. That's more than double the daily output from big rigs.
An 18-wheeler diesel-engine tru