First Name | Mark |
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Last Name | Hyman |
Email Address | mark.hyman@alliance-finishing.com |
Affiliation | Alliance Finishing & Mfg |
Subject | Public Comment |
Comment | Dear Board Members, Your proposed banning of Hex Chrome by 2025 in ill founded based upon complete ignorance of the sources and the quantities of chrome associated with those sources. Platers have complied many times over with proper science of filtration, wastewater treatment, worker training and PPE to make sure that both the employees and the public are properly protected. The amount of chrome emissions is minor ( less than 3 Lbs) compared to vloumes of pollutants emitted by diesel combustion, the cutting of concrete, or chrome emissions associated with aviation fuels. The services that the chrome platers provided, be it decorative or functional coatings allow a multitude of industries to meet their engineering and/or aesthetic requirements at a cost that allow jobs to be maintained in California and provides a standard of living to for those respective industries and their employees. I realize that business do not vote, people do and a polkitical body MUST apply and listen to science rather than hysteria, rhetoric, and biases. If not, we the people would still think that the Earth is fat and the planets revolve around the Earth instead of the sun as the Catholic church promulgated in the face of Copernicus's theories. Please do not make the same mistake in legislating out the minor chrome emissions of plating industry and at the same time by turning a blind political eye away from the larger chrome emitting sources because the political and economic fallout from those sources will be a much longer and arduous legal fight by well funded, politically connected industries. It's much easier to attack the smaller industry because political bodies need a scapegoat to continue to prove to its constituents that they are doing right for them. However, when politics negates the science that shows which industries are the larger polluters in favor of going after the low hanging fruit ( e.g. Platers) to "show progress." Let's all be thankful that we all know that the Earth is NOT flat, and that the truth of science continues to prove time and time again that political agenda quite often wants us think otherwise. This is exactly what's going on by NOT legislating significant reductions in the chrome emissions of the larger sources, that would much better protect the health of us all, Going after the plating industry will have no appreciable benefit of improvement in our health and the science continues to prove it over and over. Thank you, Mark Hyman, PhD |
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted | 2023-01-17 18:59:24 |
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