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The California Air Resources Board is openly corrupt. This is an agency that sets policy based on the work of employees who lie about their credentials. This is an agency that sets policy based on "research" that were off by 340%. This is an agency that fires whistleblowers.
"Instead of using available valid science, CARB has fashioned regulations that merely support questionable, sketchy science used by the state to pick winners and losers in the rapidly evolving and extremely complex market for clean technologies, according to Daniel Ballon, Ph.D, former Director of Technology Studies with the Pacific Research Institute (CalWatchdogs parent organization).
In 2009, Ballon wrote, In March, 111 leading Ph.D. researchers sent a letter to CARB boss Mary Nichols warning that the science is far too limited and uncertain for regulatory enforcement. CARBs own peer reviewers concluded that such analysis is in its infancy, rife with significant uncertainties, and not yet sufficiently developed to be scientifically confirmed. Putting ideology ahead of science, Nichols scoffed when the people who oppose it say, we just dont know enough and shouldnt do anything, because we don't think thats acceptable. The CARB mandates, for example, ignore the strain that plug-in hybrid vehicles exert on the electricity grid, triggering an increase in fossil fuel combustion.
For two years the corrupt CARB knew they were using fraudulent data--did not matter to them.
Now you know why tens of thousands of California jobs have ended. Business people know the system is rigged by fraud.
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"Instead of using available valid science, CARB has fashioned regulations that merely support questionable, sketchy science used by the state to pick winners and losers in the rapidly evolving and extremely complex market for clean technologies, according to Daniel Ballon, Ph.D, former Director of Technology Studies with the Pacific Research Institute (CalWatchdogs parent organization).
In 2009, Ballon wrote, In March, 111 leading Ph.D. researchers sent a letter to CARB boss Mary Nichols warning that the science is far too limited and uncertain for regulatory enforcement. CARBs own peer reviewers concluded that such analysis is in its infancy, rife with significant uncertainties, and not yet sufficiently developed to be scientifically confirmed. Putting ideology ahead of science, Nichols scoffed when the people who oppose it say, we just dont know enough and shouldnt do anything, because we don't think thats acceptable. The CARB mandates, for example, ignore the strain that plug-in hybrid vehicles exert on the electricity grid, triggering an increase in fossil fuel combustion.
For two years the corrupt CARB knew they were using fraudulent data--did not matter to them.
Now you know why tens of thousands of California jobs have ended. Business people know the system is rigged by fraud.
More...