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Here is a link to a Fox News story about a scientist who is being fired because his study disagreed with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and California and Federal law requiring diesel soot to be treated as toxic.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/08/31/pc-professors-firing-fueling-exhaustive-debate/
This is important to OHV because CARB and federal and state laws include Particulate Matter (PM) as a toxin. This PM is otherwise known as DUST. The EPA says: ”Particulate Matter, also known as particle pollution or PM, is a complex mixture of extremely small particles and liquid droplets. Particle pollution is made up of a number of components, including acids (such as nitrates and sulfates), organic chemicals, metals, and soil or dust particles.” View a map that shows the “toxic” areas, which include the entire Mojave Desert.
http://www.epa.gov/oar/oaqps/greenbk/mappm10.html
These CARB studies list VEHICLES as a major cause of dust.
The scientist is Dr. James Enstrom, an epidemiologist at UCLA’s School of Public Health. Off-Roaders need to contact UCLA and express their support for Dr. Enstrom’s work, which refutes enviro junk science that will be used to close the Mojave Desert to vehicle travel. Follow this link to support Dr. Enstrom in his fight against UCLA:
http://chancellor.ucla.edu/contact-information
Can we get 1000 Off-Roaders to send emails to UCLA to support this scientist who is trying to cut-off this threat from extreme enviros? Can we help stop this junk science the way global warming junk science is being stopped?
Related Articles
- Enstrom und drang: Air quality contrarian fights expulsion (blogs.nature.com)
Tags: California Air Resources Board, Dr. Enstrom, Mojave Desert, Particulate, University of California Los Angeles
