Posted on 12/21/2007 10:15:46 AM PST by NormsRevenge
The governor has appointed Berkeley resident Dr. John Balmes to the California Air Resources Board.
Balmes, 57, a Democrat, has been a professor of environmental health sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, since 2002 and has been a professor of medicine at UCSF since 1986.
His appointment requires Senate confirmation. Compensation for the position is $39,332 annually.
Dr. John R. Balmes has studied the effects of wildland fire smoke in firefighters and is currently studying the effects of woodsmoke in women and children who live in homes where wood is used for cooking and heating in Guatemala.
Say goodbye to your fireplaces and barbecues everyone.
In other words, in the real world he does nothing at all.
Scientists Lend Expertise to Green Chemistry Initiative
Sep 4, 2007, Business Wire
About two dozen of the nation’s top scientists and engineers will join the state Department of Toxics Substances Control (DTSC) to build the California Green Chemistry Initiative - a new program to cut toxic chemicals in consumer products.
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Vice Chair: John R. Balmes, M.D.
John Balmes is the Director of the Center for Occupational & Environmental Health at the University of California, San Francisco and University of California, Berkeley. He is a pulmonary physician by training, Professor of Medicine at UCSF, and Chief of the Divisions of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital. Balmes leads a group of investigators at UC Berkeley and UCLA to assist in developing a national program linking environmental hazards with health outcome data to track diseases that are potentially related to environmental exposures.
2004: “Dr. John Balmes is a volunteer with the American Lung Association of California, past President of the California Thoracic Society and Professor of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco. He lives in Berkeley.”
2005: “Dr. John Balmes, head of the Northern California Center for Occupational and Environmental Health... Balmes, a specialist in lung and environmental diseases who teaches at both UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco’s medical school.”
2006: “Dr. John Balmes, a pulmonary critical care physician and professor of medicine at the University of California, Berkeley and UC San Francisco ... also a spokesman for the American Lung Association’s California chapter.”
Actually, worse. The government (taxpayers) pay him to prove that humans are hazardous to the earth. ;-)
Doctor of Phrenology
For more than forty years I’ve heard “We have to clean up the air”. Every Political campaign we hear “We have to clean up the air”. Bureaucracies were created, money was allocated.
Some of the bureaucracies are funded by penalties against real or imagined Industrial violaters of pollution laws of which were created by the self funding bureaucracies. Where is the science?
My point is that here we are forty plus years later and we still are told “We have to clean the air” after Billions of dollars have been confiscated from the economy apparently to perpetuate those whom continue to state “We have to clean the air”.
We call it right when we say AGW is a scam, but has anyone looked at the “We need to clean the air” scam.
Where are the reports of the results of forty plus years of economy wrecking confiscatory pollution rules that only provide us in So. Calif. clear days to this date ONLY when it is windy, cold, and after a good rain shower.
Hey, look, ma, Ah-nold appointed another rodent !
Tell me, when is he going to make his party switch official so we can finally unite and fight this Socialist together as a party ?
Is this a political appointment, or is it one of those where party labels don’t matter much?
I’d say the label mattered regardless, given the job description. How many Democrats you know of aren’t adherents to the Global Warming/Green obsessed pseudoreligious farce ? I’d jam pack such a board with skeptics who actually base their decisions and judgments on facts and not political correctness/coercion.
The head of CARB is one of the most powerful positions in the state, and yes—party matters (IMO). In California, I think you would be hard-pressed to find a Democrat environmentalist who isn’t a moonbat.
CARB is the entity that controls all industry, power plants, etc. (human breathing!) through their over-reaching regulations and rules. Their powers were increased with the passage of AB32 having to do with global warming (and related topics).
Is there even a single Republican skeptic on the board ?
You’re kiddin’, right?
Here is the chairman, for example (appointed by Arnie):
You can view the other members here: http://www.arb.ca.gov/board/members.htm
Mary D. Nichols was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as Chairman of the California Air Resources Board in July 2007. She returns to the Air Board 30 years after serving as the Chairman under Governor Jerry Brown from 1978 to 1983.
Nichols has devoted her entire career in public and private, not-for-profit service to advocating for the environment and public health. In addition to her work at the Air Board, she has held a number of positions, including: assistant administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Air and Radiation program under the Clinton Administration, Secretary for California’s Resources Agency from 1999 to 2003, and Director of the University of California, Los Angeles Institute of the Environment.
As one of California’s first environmental lawyers, she initiated precedent-setting test cases under the Federal Clean Air Act and California air quality laws while practicing as a staff attorney for the Center for Law in the Public Interest. Nichols holds a Juris Doctorate degree from Yale Law School and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University.
In her return as Chairman, Nichols’ priorities include moving the state’s landmark climate change program ahead, as well as steering the Board through numerous efforts to curb diesel pollution at ports, and continuing to pass regulations aimed at providing cleaner air for Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley. She values innovation, partnerships and common-sense approaches to addressing the state’s air issues.
The Air Resources Board leads the country in working with the public, the business sector, and local governments to protect the public’s health, the economy and the state’s ecological resources through the most cost-effective reduction of air pollution. The Board now employs roughly 1,200 engineers, scientists and attorneys, with an annual operating budget of more than $750 million.
*sigh*
I’m always the optimist... :-\
Needn't read further than "Jerry Brown." And if Rose Bird weren't dead, Ah-nold would reappoint her as Chief Justice again, no doubt.
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