<div dir="ltr">An infantile rebellion like the Earth Hour, and where else... ? (As infantile as the Earth Hour). Click on the headline to see more pictures and text.<br><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px">"<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:17px">Last year, New Jersey became the first state to explicitly ban rolling coal, going beyond the federal laws that already prohibit drivers from tinkering with emissions controls. A similar bill is on the table in Illinois, while Colorado and Maryland have defeated proposed bans."<br></span><span style="font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:1.0625rem;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br>Truck owners intent on rolling coal need only to turn to the Discovery Channel reality show “Diesel Brothers” for guidance. The show, which has more than 2.2 million viewers an episode, follows Heavy D, Diesel Dave and a team of mechanics in Utah who “</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnoLkx33Un0&list=PLEq_6M2_yw5GLRL6VajVw0uQBZvm3i9xd" style="font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:1.0625rem;color:rgb(50,104,145)">build the baddest diesel trucks ever seen on the planet</a><span style="font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:1.0625rem;color:rgb(51,51,51)">.” Some of the modified trucks are offered for sale with no emissions controls on </span><a href="https://www.dieselsellerz.com/" style="font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:1.0625rem;color:rgb(50,104,145)">DieselSellerz.com</a><span style="font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:1.0625rem;color:rgb(51,51,51)">, a site affiliated with the show.   <br></span><span style="font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:1.0625rem;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br>The Diesel Brothers have alarmed health professionals. Even short-term exposure to diesel smoke can increase the probability of heart attacks, strokes, lung disease and cancer, said Brian Moench, president of the </span><a href="http://uphe.org/" style="font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:1.0625rem;color:rgb(50,104,145)">Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment</a><span style="font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:1.0625rem;color:rgb(51,51,51)">.</span></blockquote><br>Will WHO modeling of concentrations from emission rates - and BAMG presumptions of linking concentrations to DALYs - work here? A readymade experiment worth so many PhDs. <br><br>There's a Kirk Smith dictum “you don’t
get what you expect, you get what you inspect.” <br><br>All the assumptions behind IERs, GBD, and BAMG exercises are driven toward one goal - to get what one expects (or demands the models to show so the output can be marketed). <br><br>What you fail to inspect, or choose to ignore, ensures that you don't get what you don't expect. <br><br>There's a lesson here for those who are willing to learn. <br><br>Nikhil<div>--------------------<br><div><header id="gmail-story-header" class="gmail-story-header" style="margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px"><div id="gmail-story-meta" class="gmail-story-meta" style="margin-bottom:20px"><h1 id="gmail-headline" class="gmail-headline" style="line-height:2.375rem;font-style:italic;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-feature-settings:'kern' 1;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/05/business/energy-environment/rolling-coal-in-diesel-trucks-to-rebel-and-provoke.html?" style="font-weight:normal"><font size="4">‘Rolling Coal’ in Diesel Trucks, to Rebel and Provoke</font></a></h1><div id="gmail-story-meta-footer" class="gmail-story-meta-footer" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-cheltenham,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:16px;border-top:1px solid rgb(226,226,226);padding-top:14px;border-bottom:none;padding-bottom:0px;display:flex"><p class="gmail-byline-dateline" style="margin:0px 0px 3px 45px;font-size:1rem;line-height:17px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif"><span class="gmail-byline" style="font-size:0.6875rem;line-height:0.75rem;font-weight:700;font-family:nyt-cheltenham-sh,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;margin-left:12px">By <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/by/hiroko-tabuchi" title="More Articles by HIROKO TABUCHI" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-byline-author" style="white-space:nowrap">HIROKO TABUCHI</span></a></span><time class="gmail-dateline" datetime="2016-09-06T14:32:46-04:00" style="white-space:nowrap;font-size:0.6875rem;line-height:0.75rem;font-family:nyt-cheltenham-sh,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-left:0px">SEPT. 4, 2016</time></p><div class="gmail-story-meta-footer-sharetools" style="margin-top:0px;display:flex"><div id="gmail-sharetools-story-meta-footer" class="gmail-sharetools gmail-theme-classic gmail-sharetools-story-meta-footer"> </div></div></div></div></header><div class="gmail-story-interrupter" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-cheltenham,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:16px"><figure class="gmail-media gmail-slideshow gmail-promo gmail-lede gmail-layout-jumbo-horizontal" id="gmail-slideshow-100000004623224" style="margin:0px 0px 45px;clear:both;width:1125px"><a class="gmail-visually-hidden gmail-skip-to-text-link" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/05/business/energy-environment/rolling-coal-in-diesel-trucks-to-rebel-and-provoke.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share&_r=0#story-continues-1" style="width:1px;height:1px;padding:0px;border:0px;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Continue reading the main story</a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2016/09/04/business/rolling-coal-at-the-fair.html" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-visually-hidden" style="width:1px;height:1px;padding:0px;border:0px;overflow:hidden">Slide Show</span><div class="gmail-image" style="margin-bottom:7px"><img src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/08/26/business/00COALROLL1/00COALROLL1-videoSixteenByNineJumbo1600.jpg" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%; border: none; display: block; width: 1125px; transition-duration: 0.15s, 0.15s; transition-timing-function: linear, ease-out;"><div class="gmail-media-action-overlay" style="border-radius:5px;max-width:425px;min-width:285px;min-height:45px;padding:15px 20px;display:flex;box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.85098);border:1px solid rgba(76,76,76,0.85098)"><span class="gmail-icon gmail-sprite-icon" style="display:inline-block;line-height:0;vertical-align:middle;background-image:url("/assets/article/20160920-125026/images/sprite/sprite-no-repeat.svg");float:none;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:-473px -110px;width:32px;height:28px"></span><div class="gmail-media-meta" style="float:none;margin-top:0px;max-width:88%"><h5 class="gmail-kicker" style="font-size:0.75rem;line-height:1rem;font-weight:300;margin:0px 0px 2px;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:0.075em;color:rgb(255,255,255);display:flex"><span class="gmail-kicker-label" style="font-size:0.75rem;line-height:0.8125rem;font-weight:700;font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.05em;display:inline-block">SLIDE SHOW</span><span class="gmail-pipe" style="color:rgb(204,204,204);margin:0px 0px 0px 8px;vertical-align:text-bottom;display:inline-block;font-size:0.6875rem;line-height:0.8125rem;font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">|</span><span class="gmail-counter" style="font-size:0.6875rem;line-height:0.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