California Construction Trucking Association (CCTA)

This is How the Governor Deals with HIS Governments Fraud!

On December 15, we sent a 5 page letter to the Governor expressing our total dissatisfaction with CARB’s Chairperson, Mary Nichols and its management staff. They have all conspired to not only cover up the fraudulent credential activity of a key employee (Mr. Tran) responsible for their health effects report associated with the ridiculous on-road diesel engine rule,

but the off-road diesel engine rule as well. It was only after a year of screaming by organizations like ours, that Mrs. Nichols was forced to make this all public and disclose the problems to the full CARB Board. There were at least a half-dozen questionably unethical actions taken by the CARB Chair and staff in dealing with this issue as well as being honest about things like the “true” health effects of diesel emissions, the economic affects on the transportation industry here and the even the grant funding available to help the industry. It’s all a pack of lies and miss-information.

Our letter to the Governor, the person who is most responsible for CARB’s continued unethical and unreasonable behavior, apparently wasn’t a surprise to him. We received the response letter on January 8^th, the same day an article about this job-killing agency appeared in a newspaper out of Martinez, CA (see page 18, CTN Vol 69 No1).

I’ll bet the response letter below was written by someone from CARB telling by what it says, “with numerous studies and overwhelming evidence on this topic”.

Right, studies from activist scientist that only get grants from CARB and EPA, scientist with numerous conflicts of interest. In an object scientific forum these scientists would be embarrassed to present their findings to peers. It’s all just like man-made global warming – a big effen-lie!

Remember this is YOUR government, your country! If this doesn’t convince you that we all need to do something to change this, than nothing will. This is purely wrong and un-American!

Incidentally, on January 4^th, we (an ad hoc industry working group of associations and company owners) sent a letter to CARB’s board members stating that we were concerned with the CARB staff’s review of options, data, analysis and scientific studies. We sent another separate letter out on January 6^th to the President of the UC School system, Mark Yudof asking that he compel UC Berkeley Professor, Michael Jerrett, to release his data to us as part of the CARB Board’s direction to “redo” the Tran report. The Tran report relies significantly on this professor’s data and research.

Since CARB’s Board has agreed to “redo” the Tran report, we are aggressively pursuing full discovery relating to every aspect of it. We will continue to demand that the “redo” of the report be done in a transparent and equitable fashion, something that CARB’s staff is very unaccustomed to doing.