What Are the Sources of Airborne Inorganic Arsenic Emissions?
Combustion and high-temperature processes are the largest sources of inorganic arsenic emissions to the atmosphere. Major sources of inorganic arsenic emissions in California include: o Wood and fossil-fuel combustion sources such as fireplaces, woodstoves, external combustion boilers, internal combustion engines; o Geothermal steam development, transmission, usage and release; and o Arsenical pesticide/herbicide use. Other sources of inorganic arsenic emissions may include mining and quarry operations, windblown dust from the dry lakebeds and playas of eastern California, cement manufacturing, glass manufacturing, agricultural burning, waste incineration, secondary lead smelting, resource recovery operations, and the smoking of tobacco.
