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The San Joaquin Valley of CA is now referred to as the Appalachia
of California. Just because we are not seen as a positive asset to
our state does not mean we deserve to breathe unclean air. We
deserve the same clean air to breathe every day as the people
living in other regions of California. Would you want your children
or family to breathe the air we breathe each day knowing it will
cause unrepairable lung damage? No, you would not want that for
your family and should not want it for any citizen in our state.
Our children and adults suffer with higher rates of asthma,
premature births, and chronic lung disease from breathing unclean
valley air each day. The majority of the particulate matter we
breathe each day in the valley is created by the diesel exhaust
from trucks traveling through the valley. Yes, we can move out of
the valley to breathe clean air but then who will produce the food
you and your family eat each day?   
We are contributing to the economy of the state of CA each day by
being one of the main producers of food for our country. Why would
you support a bill that caused the people in the valley who do so
much for the economy to live in an unclean air environment? 
Please consider the results of your action of supporting the
Diesel Truck Rule that will continue to prevent our valley air form
being cleaner for all of us who live here and support California
not only through our tax dollars but through our ongoing support of
providing dollars to the economy of California.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION OF THE AIR WE BREATHE EACH DAY IN
THE VALLEY AND THE HEALTH OF THE PEOPLE LIVING IN THE VALLEY.