The Daily Caller68%
California’s New Diesel Regulation Is All Pain for No Gain 56%
6/23/2009, 12:00:00 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 19 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Biased Writer Voice, and Confirmation Bias, with Burden of Proof as the most egregious example at 29.7% saturation with 47 hits. Analysis detected 510 faulty-reasoning hits from 158 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 53.3% and a BS Rank of 56% (9,740 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 55.50% of the article peer group.
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) promulgated new, stricter regulations for diesel truck emissions, last December, that significantly reduce the amount of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) emissions allowed in the state.
Diesel PM 2.5 is made up of fine particles of soot from diesel emissions that can be inhaled deeply into the lungs, and is often blamed for premature deaths.
However, California’s new regulation will do nothing to improve public health, while costing millions.
California is the only state with such a diesel emissions reduction program, largely because the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency has never determined that diesel exhaust causes premature deaths.
For example, the agency’s large, detailed study in 2002 failed to find that diesel exhaust causes premature deaths.
As Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Dr.
Henry Miller points out, the new regulations constitute an overreach by CARB—based on faulty science—that would drive business out of California.
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