Carl Pope's Fracking Down On Diesel

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In the reading, "Cracking Down on Diesel," the author argues that California should improve their enforcement of rules regarding soot and black carbon pollution from diesel engines.
The author’s main reasons to support his view are that cleaning the pollution up is easy, practical, and affordable, but diesel emissions still pose a danger to humans and the climate when state enforcement of diesel pollution rules is lacking (Paragraph 2 and 3).

In paragraph four and five, Carl Pope describes how diesel pollution poses a danger to humans and the climate by mentioning soot as the causes of respiratory diseases and cancer and including info on how diesel emissions is a climate disrupter and greenhouse gas. He ties it back to Californians in

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