What is diesel exhaust? What chemicals are found in diesel exhaust? Diesel exhaust is a mixture of over 400 different fine particles, vapors, and toxic organic materials, that result when diesel fuel is burned. Over 40 chemicals in diesel exhaust are considered toxic air contaminants (TAC) by the State of California. What is diesel exhaust?What [...]
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Particulate Emissions from Diesel-Fueled Engines as a Toxic Air Contaminant
The staffs of the Air Resources Board (ARB or Board) and the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) have been evaluating diesel exhaust since 1989 under California’s air toxics program, for potential identification as a toxic air contaminant (TAC). A draft report was first released in June 1994, for public review and comment. A revised draft [...]
Health Effects of Diesel Exhaust
Diesel fuel is widely used throughout our society. It powers trucks that deliver products to our communities, buses that carry us to school and work, agricultural equipment that plants and harvests our food, and backup generators that can provide electricity during emergencies. It is also used for many other applications. Diesel engines have historically been [...]
Dutch subsidy for Euro VI trucks and buses
In the Netherlands, heavy-duty vehicles(trucks and buses) that meet the new Euro VI standards will be subsidised by up to 4500 euro each in 2012 and 2013. The Euro VI standards will become mandatory for all new heavy-duty vehicles from 2014. Tests by the Dutch environment consultancy TNO have shown that the new Euro VI engines [...]
New Gothenburg Protocol adopted
http–airclim.us4.list-manage.com-track-clicku=1d836ea175cc2e5cad344d24b&id=cf047db5ca&e=f00b9b2b5b “The sulphur content of ship fuels will be cut to 0.1% from 2015 in the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, and to 0.5% from 2020 in other EU waters. As a result, emissions of sulphur dioxide from shipping in Europe will come down by more than 80 per cent.” Hong Kong has no [...]
DOE’s Dispersal of Radioactive Waste into Landfills and Consumer Products
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IARC: DIESEL ENGINE EXHAUST CARCINOGENIC
Lyon, France, June 12, 2012 ‐‐ After a week-long meeting of international experts, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which is part of the World Health Organization (WHO), today classified diesel engine exhaust as carcinogenic to humans (Group 1), based on sufficient evidence that exposure is associated with an increased risk for lung [...]
Nanoparticles in Polluted Air, Smoke Have Serious Impact on Health
http://eponline.com/Articles/2012/06/12/Nanoparticles-in-Polluted-Air-Smoke-Have-Serious-Impact-on-Health.aspx?p=1 New groundbreaking research by scientists at Trinity College Dublin has found that exposure to nanoparticles can have a serious impact on health, linking it to rheumatoid arthritis and the development of other serious autoimmune diseases. The findings that have been recently published in the international journal Nanomedicine have health and safety implications for the manufacture, use [...]
Pollution
Coal pollution kills 70000 a year in India: IMF Chief IBNLive.com - 1 hour ago IMF chief Christine Lagarde on Tuesday said pollution from coal generation plants causes about 70000 premature deaths every year in India. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jun/12/china-soil-pollution-bonn-challenge The clean-up begins on China’s dirty secret – soil pollution Nowhere is the global push to restore degraded land likely to be more [...]
Diesel fumes cause cancer: WHO
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/news/print.cfm?objectid=10812719 WHO says diesel fumes are as big a public health threat as passive smoking. Photo / Thinkstock Diesel fumes cause cancer, the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) cancer agency says, a ruling that could make exhaust as important a public health threat as passive smoking. The risk of getting cancer from diesel fumes is small, but [...]