Citing particulate emissions, local activists ask Calpella wood pellet plant close during COVID

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LITTLE RIVER, 7/27/20 — A half a mile from Calpella’s small downtown, a plume of gray emissions comes billowing out of the smokestack of the nearby wood pellet plant day and night, says a resident of the nearby Coyote Valley Reservation.