<div dir="ltr">What a story....similar to this gem is a story in todays newspaper regarding air pollution from bad fuel rejected by the EU and dumped in the African market - <div><br></div><div>''<span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:raleway,sans-serif;font-size:15px">The high-sulphur fuels also have a knock-on effect, rapidly destroying emission-reducing technologies in vehicles, according to Rob de Jong, the head of the UNEP transport programme. “So if you buy a vehicle that’s a couple of years old and import it into some of the African countries, the technology in there – sensors and filters – all gets spoilt, and these cars, which are potentially very clean, are destroyed in a couple of tanks, and for the next 20 years will be belching smoke. It’s important to understand the tragedy of this,” he said. This in turn increases emissions of fine particulate matter, which can lodge deep in the lungs, causing cancers and other health problems.</span></div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:raleway,sans-serif;font-size:15px">Read more at: </span><a href="http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2000217548/dirty-diesel-rejected-in-europe-exported-to-africa" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration:none;font-family:raleway,sans-serif;font-size:15px">http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2000217548/dirty-diesel-rejected-in-europe-exported-to-africa</a>'' <div><br></div><div>I certainly hope something like this cannot happen with LPG cooking gas or that all those generators in Lagos and Accra are not pumping smoke into the kitchens with induction stoves :(<br></div><div><br></div><div>Teddy </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Cookswell Jikos</b><br><a href="http://www.cookswell.co.ke" target="_blank">www.cookswell.co.ke</a></div><div><a href="http://www.facebook.com/CookswellJikos" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/CookswellJikos</a></div><div><a href="http://www.kenyacharcoal.blogspot.com" target="_blank">www.kenyacharcoal.blogspot.com</a></div><div>Mobile: +254 700 380 009 <br></div><div>Mobile: +254 700 905 913</div><div>P.O. Box 1433, Nairobi 00606, Kenya</div><div><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-mFnK50B4oS8/UUrgJle8z9I/AAAAAAAAB_o/OUjLd7wrKPg/s133/Cookswell+Logo.PNG" width="71" height="96"><br></div><div><font color="#008000" face="Tms Rmn">Save trees - think twice before printing</font><font size="1" color="#008000" face="Tms Rmn">.</font><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><br></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 7:23 PM, Traveller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:miata98@gmail.com" target="_blank">miata98@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><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)" target="_blank">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)" target="_blank">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)" target="_blank">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 style="margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px"><div style="margin-bottom:20px"><h1 style="line-height:2.375rem;font-style:italic;margin:0px 0px 10px;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" target="_blank"><font size="4">‘Rolling Coal’ in Diesel Trucks, to Rebel and Provoke</font></a></h1><div 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 style="margin:0px 0px 3px 45px;font-size:1rem;line-height:17px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif"><span 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)" target="_blank"><span style="white-space:nowrap">HIROKO TABUCHI</span></a></span><time 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 style="margin-top:0px;display:flex"><div> </div></div></div></div></header><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-cheltenham,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:16px"><figure style="margin:0px 0px 45px;clear:both;width:1125px"><a 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;min-height:1px;padding:0px;border:0px;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)" target="_blank">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)" target="_blank"><span style="width:1px;min-height:1px;padding:0px;border:0px;overflow:hidden">Slide Show</span><div style="margin-bottom:7px"><img src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/08/26/business/00COALROLL1/00COALROLL1-videoSixteenByNineJumbo1600.jpg" style="min-height:auto;max-width:100%;border:none;display:block;width:1125px"><div style="border-radius:5px;max-width:425px;min-width:285px;min-height:45px;padding:15px 20px;display:flex;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.85098);border:1px solid rgba(76,76,76,0.85098)"><span style="display:inline-block;line-height:0;vertical-align:middle;background-image:url("http:///assets/article/20160920-125026/images/sprite/sprite-no-repeat.svg");float:none;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:-473px -110px;width:32px;min-height:28px"></span><div style="float:none;margin-top:0px;max-width:88%"><h5 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 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 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 style="font-size:0.6875rem;line-height:0.8125rem;font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-transform:capitalize;display:inline-block;vertical-align:text-bottom">7 Photos</span></h5><h4 style="font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.375rem;font-weight:400;margin:4px 0px 0px;color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline-block;letter-spacing:0.005em">Rolling Coal at the Fair</h4></div></div></div><figcaption style="font-size:0.875rem;line-height:1.125rem;font-family:nyt-cheltenham-sh,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;max-width:615px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px"><h4 style="font-size:0.8125rem;line-height:1rem;width:1px;min-height:1px;padding:0px;border:0px;overflow:hidden">Rolling Coal at the Fair</h4><p style="margin:0px;font-size:0.6875rem;line-height:1rem;display:inline-block;color:rgb(153,153,153)"><span style="width:1px;min-height:1px;padding:0px;border:0px;overflow:hidden">Credit</span>David Kasnic for The New York Times</p></figcaption></a></figure></div><div style="display:flex;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-cheltenham,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:16px"><div style="width:705px"><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em 75px;font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.625rem;font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;max-width:none;width:570px">MONTROSE, Colo. — There is a new menace on America’s roads: diesel truck drivers who soup up their engines and remove their emissions controls to “roll coal,” or belch black smoke, at pedestrians, cyclists and unsuspecting Prius drivers.</p></div></div><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div>

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