First Name | Lisa |
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Last Name | Kayser-Grant |
Email Address | lkgrant3@earthlink.net |
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Subject | Adopt strongest diesel truck rules |
Comment | Dear Members of CARB, Please adopt the strongest rules for reducing smog from all diesel trucks and buses, with no exemptions made for particular uses or classes of trucks. In order to ensure the intended results of the rules you adopt, please include measures that will allow the rules to be enforceable within explicit time limits. Your own legal commitment to cleaning the air in the smoggiest parts of the state, as well as your commitment to reducing greenhouse gases, depends on strong and decisive action that you must now take. I love living in the San Joaquin but am struggling to justify staying here now that my husband has developed asthma, and my daughter is growing up here developing the only lungs she'll ever have. I understand that the strongest rules you can adopt have high financial costs to those who use the polluting vehicles, but we know that everyone breathing polluted air pays even higher costs in terms of money spent on health care, money lost from being sick, and the devastating loss of health and even life. We also know and accept that cleanup costs will be passed on to consumers, who can them make better choices about what to buy once the financial costs of pollution are attached to the items that caused it. Many of the people driving the trucks oppose the rules based on money, but they are among the ones most affected by this pollution and you are charged with protecting them in spite of their protests. "Necessity is the mother of invention": technology will follow once the rules are made and the market for it is ensured. Likewise for incentive funding. We are counting on you to protect our health and our economy by creating and enforcing the best possible rules to clean up diesel pollution in California. Sincerely, Lisa Kayser-Grant Merced, CA |
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted | 2008-12-10 11:43:31 |
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