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Joel Schwartz
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Joel Schwartz is a Senior Fellow in the Environment Program at Reason Foundation. Before joining Reason, Joel was the Executive Officer of the California Inspection and Main-tenance Review Committee, the state agency charged with evaluating California’s Smog Check program and advising the legislature and governor on Smog Check policy. Joel previously worked as a Senior Policy Analyst with the Legislative Analyst’s Office in Sacramento, con-sulted for the RAND Corporation and the South Coast Air Quality Management District, and served as the first Staff Scientist at the Coalition for Clean Air, in Los Angeles. Joel earned a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from Cornell Uni-versity and a Master of Science in Planetary Science from the California Institute of Technology. He lives in Sacra-mento, California.
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- Burying Evidence
The Union of Concerned Scientists' unscientific claims about air pollution and health
Joel Schwartz
January 16, 2007 - Let's Pretend
Faulty smart growth survey is misleading
Joel Schwartz
October 22, 2004 - Smog Hits Record Low in 2004
Lowest ozone smog levels since measurements began
Joel Schwartz
October 12, 2004 - False Claim That Global Warming Will Increase Smog Levels
Deceptive studies harm science's credibility
Joel Schwartz
August 4, 2004 - More Highways, Less Pollution
New report ignores positive trends
Joel Schwartz
July 20, 2004 - Toxic Activism
Air pollution has been solved as a long-term problem
Joel Schwartz
July 8, 2004 - EPA's Make Work Project
Unleashing a new layer of Clean Air bureaucracy
Joel Schwartz
July 1, 2004 - State of the Scare, Once Again
American Lung Association report distorts
Steven Hayward and Joel Schwartz
May 3, 2004 - More Highways, More Pollution?
Air pollution decreases even as we drive more
Joel Schwartz
March 16, 2004 - Smart Growth Increases Pollution Woes
Kern County's smart growth is dumb choice
Joel Schwartz and Wendell Cox
August 10, 2003 - Clearing the Air
American air quality has improved dramatically
Joel Schwartz
July 1, 2003 - Reducing California's Petroleum Dependence
EC/CARB AB 2076 Report would hurt state
Joel Schwartz and Lynne Kiesling
June 10, 2003 - Resurrection of Ethanol Mandates
Oxygenates offer no environmental benefits
Joel Schwartz
June 10, 2003 - State of the Air Report
Four questions to ask American Lung Association
Joel Schwartz and Steven Hayward
April 1, 2003 - Clearing the Air in California
Adrian Moore and Joel Schwartz
March 1, 2003 - Why the Centers for Disease Control Hates the Suburbs
Public health community is wrong about suburbs
Joel Schwartz
July 30, 2002 - Extended Producer Responsibility
Reexamining its Role in Environmental Progress
Joel Schwartz and Dana Joel Gattuso
June 1, 2002 - Low-level Chemical Exposure Unlikely to Disrupt Endocrine System
Joel Schwartz
April 1, 2002 - Air Pollution and Mortality
Exaggerating risk no better than ignoring real air problems
Kenneth Green and Joel Schwartz
March 12, 2002 - Does Pollution Cause Ashtma?
Children exposed to current levels of pollution at virtually no risk of developing asthma
Joel Schwartz
February 20, 2002 - Grading the Graders
How advocacy groups mislead public on pollution
Joel Schwartz
December 6, 2001 - Evaluating the American Lung Association's State of the Air Report
Report overstates exposure
Joel Schwartz
May 4, 2001
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