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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Coalition for Clean Air (Coalition) wish to thank
Environment Now, the William C. Bannerman Foundation, Entertainment Industry Foundation, Jill Tate
Higgins, James P. Higgins, and Laurie and Larry David, whose support made this report and the
continuation of our California Dump Dirty Diesel Campaign possible. As with all of our work, the
support of NRDC’s hundreds of thousands of members nationwide and the Coalition’s thousands of
California members was invaluable to completion of this project. The University of California, Berkeley
School of Public Health, NRDC, and the Coalition also wish to thank the Rose Foundation for
Communities and the Environment for its generous support for their monitoring work.
We are also grateful to Anthony D. A. Hansen, Ph.D., of Magee Scientific and the Lawrence
Berkeley Labs, and to Jim Morton of Andersen Instruments, Inc., for the loan of Aethalometers.
We would particularly like to thank the reviewers of portions of this report, including Dale Hattis,
Ph.D. and Stan Dawson, Ph.D., who reviewed the risk assessment calculations, Steven D. Colome,
Sc.D., who reviewed Chapters 1 and 2 and the monitoring protocol and appendices, and Michael P.
Walsh, Jason Mark, B.S.E., M.S., and Richard Kassel, who reviewed Chapters 2 through 8.
Editorial Assistance
Faith Salie and Christine Steele
Production
Virginia Calvano
Bonnie Greenfield
Cover Artists
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Matt Cooper (photos)
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responsible public health policy; providing technical and educational expertise; and promoting broadbased
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