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I've lived in the Central Valley my whole life. I've witnessed the
air quality become worse and worse as the traffic on the roads
increased. The proportion of truck traffic to passenger cars has
become skewed so much towards trucks that they seem to outnumber
cars on the roads, and many, if not most of them, are still spewing
diesel fumes, soot and chemicals into the air at in enormous
quantities. The time to get a handle on this problem is now. There
are technologies available to clean up diesel engines. There are
enough studies showing the direct effects of diesel pollutants on
our children's health that the idea regulations governing
diesel-truck exhaust emissions might actually be weakened defies
all reason. Everything has a cost. I'd rather pay more money to
bite the bullet and deal with cleaning up diesel emissions with
more stringent rules than pay with my children's health and allow
the diesel trucking and ag industries to continue to get a bye on
cleaning up their act. Please pass a stronger diesel truck rule so
that my family can breathe clean air.