When Dwayne Whitney started his trucking business decades ago he had only one truck. Today he has eighteen and 20 employees. But that’s about to change.
“The State of California says my trucks are killing people,” says Whitney. “What do you say to that?”
In a few years, new air quality regulations approved by the California Air Resources Board will render Whitney’s entire fleet illegal.
“New CARB rules are putting me out of business,” he says.
CARB claims that diesel particulates, a type of pollution emitted from buses and trucks, contributes to 2,000 premature deaths in California each year. But UCLA epidemiologist Dr. James Enstrom says the number should be closer to zero.
In 2005 Enstrom authored an extensive study that found no relationship between diesel particulates and premature deaths. He says his study, as well as other evidence that agrees with it, have been ignored by an agency bent on passing ever more stringent regulations regardless of their effect on California’s economy.
Enstrom blew the whistle on CARB for, among other things, failing to publicize that the lead author of the study that was used to justify the new regulations falsified his education history (he purchased his PhD from an online diploma mill).
But UCLA didn’t come to Enstrom’s defense. In fact, officials informed him that, after 34 years at the university, he was out of a job.
“The environmental regulation machine in powerful in California,” says Adam Kissel of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which is defending Enstrom in the fight to keep his job. “When Dr. Enstrom went up against that machine he was retaliated against.”
A hearing that begins on April 4 will determine whether Dr. Enstrom keeps his job, and the final decision rests with UCLA Chancellor Gene Block.
Says Kissel, “If Dr. Enstrom loses his job because he exercised his academic freedom, then it’s a message to other researchers that you’d better not rock the boat because you might be next.”
Approximately 9 minutes.
“The Green Regulation Machine” is written and produced by Ted Balaker. Field Producer: Paul Detrick; Camera: Alex Manning, Hawk Jensen, Josh Swain, Austin Bragg.
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This is a total …
This is a total fraud. Mary Nichols & UCLA should be ashamed of themselves. I am a UC student myself, & this makes our school(s) look disgraceful. I feel so sorry for Dr. Enstrom, this is so appalling. These stupid regulations are no longer there to protect us, these regulations are use as TAX REVENUE to fund Mary Nichols & her cronies bloated salaries. Her dept. wastes almost 1 billion dollars every year; to pay for their stupid junkets, & child molester university fake Ph.D. research.
@thebestsumoeva …
@thebestsumoeva Please re-read what I wrote. I didn’t say that hypothesis is the ENTIRE scientific process. I was defining “science” as “the entire scientific process.” So when you refer to “the science of AGW,” for example, you are describing the entire process in which certain theories, facts, etc. are derived.
@Ovedya2006 BTW you …
@Ovedya2006 BTW you can’t really prove Einstein wrong, his theories have been experimentally verified to a large degree. At best you can make a correction to his theory but it still doesn’t take away from the predictive power that has already been shown to be true. Einstein did not prove Newton wrong so much as he made a correction at high energy/velocity. Newtons equations are true for 99% of what we see everyday…
@Ovedya2006 A …
@Ovedya2006 A hypothesis is not the entire scientific process at all. Any one can make an observation and come up with a theory based off it, but it isn’t credible until it is proven experimentally. As a physics research assistant I can tell you there are thousands of theoretical papers on various quantum processes that get disproved by experiments everyday. Should we destroy our economies every time someone has a theory that can’t be proven?
Informative.
Informative.
@philnoll Electric …
@philnoll Electric cars run on coal. Most of the US electricity is generated by coal. Production of electric cars and their batteries (cadmium and lithium) cause more pollution than they prevent. Widespread use of electric cars will cause blackouts. Currently tax dollars are subsidizing the cost of electric cars yet they are still only affordable by the rich who want the appearance of “being green”.
@philnoll See the …
@philnoll See the CARB and So Bay ARB missions statements(on line).. both want people in closer to where they work, live[more]commune like, telecommute, use other modes of transportation, walking or bicycles(see City of L.A. itis implementing bike pathways that take away from traffic areas on the streets). Essentially, they want the ‘little’ people out of their cars(and maybe motorcycles), while the politicians and the rich continue to ride in the carbon polluting vehicles. Basically, CONTROL.
@darrylmueller …
@darrylmueller Addl reply:Nichols has no sense of honor or accountability to the gen taxpayer. With Arnold and Brown having their own GW agendas, right or wrong, Nichols’ appointed position, allows her to running virtually free of reprecussions, out of control with no boundaries or limitations. And we all “see” it. Is it just me, but isn’t what happened in the City of Bell and what goes on at every level of politics, the party,[more]glaringly clear?
It’s not the truck …
It’s not the truck exhaust it’s all the kush
@darrylmueller Thk …
@darrylmueller Thk u 4 ur succinct words. I hve bn following CARB and the calculating,dictatorial Nichols’ insanity for months, from an L.A. afternoon talk show, I have listened to for years, on 640. It is understood that Tran would not be fired as his “scientific” data was an aid in advancing Nichols’ agenda. The data related to an entirely different geographic location and from a different time period. The then, Gov “Arnold” and then A.G. Brown r on th same controlling ,political sheet.
@usactionnewsdotcom …
@usactionnewsdotcom Phase out petrol and diesel cars. There will still be electric cars.
@philnoll
Read the …
@philnoll
Read the article: “Cars, Planes to be Banned in Our Green Energy Future”
@usactionnewsdotcom …
@usactionnewsdotcom “Cars, Planes to be Banned in Our Green Energy Future”
What do you think we will use for transportation?
Check it out. 7:57 …
Check it out. 7:57 Mary Nichols has a Hitler stash.
Read: New UC San …
Read: New UC San Diego study shows warming occurred many times naturally
Cars, Planes to be Banned in Our Green Energy Future
Obama pushes up oil, gas and electric rates as he promised
More of your green wasted on green subsidies
Obama warned us he would make electricity rates ’skyrocket’
The fact that Mary …
The fact that Mary Nichols did not fire Hien Tran say it all. We know what happens when you lie you get fired. In this case Nichols & Tran should have been fired!
Environazism = high …
Environazism = high taxes, high unemployment
There are plenty of …
There are plenty of Californians I know who are sick and tired of the high taxes and regulations that are killing jobs… the problem is they’re in the minority. Props to that minority for trying to make a positive difference, but the majority of Californians are stupid for voting in politicians and favoring policies that result in self-destruction.
These trucks likely …
These trucks likely deliver things like food and medication. You know, things that help people avoid early death.
@thomaserossi,
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@thomaserossi,
Atheism has Nothing to do with socialists like Mary Nichols and her pal Jerry the Clown destroying jobs.
There is no science in the politics of the CARB. They are using fake science to justify their need to control you and your way of life.
Also on another …
Also on another note, if these truckers cannot afford to keep the old rig or cannot afford a new one, there will be less trucks…The enviro nuts will love that…So how will the enviro nuts get their food, how will they get daily living supplies..Basically fewer trucks will equal empty shelves or the product being shipped will be so expensive the demand for the product will drop..All in all, laid off truckers, laid off workers. Follow the money and see who really benifits from this..
Check out ” …
Check out “economic leakage” staff report of May 2010 ( do a search) that would happen by AB 32 tell’s all about business leaving the state. Lots of heavy equip sold for cheep and gone for ever. Political Correctness gone crazy, Oh yes Unions sat back and did nothing to help contractors, now those jobs are gone!
How many die from …
How many die from gang shootings in Cali…..??? The new truck exhaust sytems are a joke…Truckers cannot afford to keep a new truck running…When one of these new exhaust systems fails, you better have a warranty, if not, it cost thousands and thousands to fix the truck…As in this vid says 15 grand for the exhaust section…The EPA is killing us financially…If we are all broke and starving, who is going to care about the environment anyway..
Even if true, 2k …
Even if true, 2k out of 37 million !! that’s what? 5 10 thousandth of a percent !@!! GMAFB !!
The greenie nut …
The greenie nut jobs in wacky-fornia need to go hump a tree. Both food and clothes don’t just magically appear in the stores. If they continue to on truck drivers they will drive business out of California.Guess they want everyone to live like “Little House on the Prairie”.