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Diesel Exhaust

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What is Diesel Exhaust?

Diesel exhaust is a smokey complex mixture of thousands of toxic gases (carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, mercury) and fine particles known as soot or particulate matter that contains more than 40 chemical substances which are listed as toxic air contaminants and as carcinogen which include many known cancer-causing substances (arsenic, benzene, formaldehyde, nickel) especially the risk of developing lung cancer and other types of cancer, and contributes to respiratory tract infections and lung diseases such as asthma, emphysema and chronic bronchitis.

Diesel exhaust is produced when diesel fuel is combusted (burned). It is produced when an engine burns diesel fuel.

OEHHA – Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
Health Effects of Diesel Exhaust

American Lung Cancer Association of California
There’s Even More You Should Know About Diesel
Public Health and Diesel

EPA – Environmental Protection Agency
Air
Health Assessment Document for Diesel Exhaust
Information on Particulate Matter
Particulate Matter (PM-10)
PM – How Particulate Matter Affects the Way We Live & Breathe
PM – What is it? Where does it come from?
PM – Chief Causes for Concern
PM – Health and Environmental Impacts of PM
PM – EPA’s Efforts to Reduce PM
NOx – How Nitrogen Oxides Affect the Way We Live and Breathe
NOx: What is it? Where does it come from?
NOx – Chief Causes for Concern
NOx – Health and Environmental Impacts of NOx
NOx – EPA’s Efforts to Reduce NOx
SO2 – How Sulfur Dioxide Affects the Way We Live & Breathe
SO2: What is it? Where does it come from?
SO2– Chief Causes for Concern
SO2 – Health and Environmental Impacts of SO2
SO2– EPA’s Efforts to Reduce SO2
CO – How Carbon Monoxide Affects the Way We Live and Breathe
CO: What is it? Where does it come from?
CO – Chief Causes for Concern
CO – Health and Environmental Impacts of CO
CO – EPA’s Efforts to Reduce CO
Ozone – How Ground-level Ozone Affects the Way We Live and Breathe
Ozone – Ground-level Ozone: What is it? Where does it come from?
Ozone – Chief Causes for Concern
Ozone – Health and Environmental Impacts of Ground-level Ozone
Ozone – EPA’s Efforts to Reduce Ground-level Ozone
Smog — Who Does It Hurt?

WHSC- Workers Health and Safety Centre
Diesel Emissions: an exhausting hazard

CTA – Clear the Air – The National Campaign Against Dirty Power
Air Pollution & Power Plants – The Facts
Air of Injustice – African Americans & Power Plant Polllution
Most Dirty Power Plants Getting Dirtier
Power Plant Emissions – A Threat to America’s Children
How Air Pollution from Power Plants Threatens the Health of America’s Children

NRDC – Natural Resources Defense Council
Introduction – Getting the Dirt on Your Electric Company
Utility Profiles – Getting the Dirt on Your Electric Company
Emissions Comparisons – Getting the Dirt on Your Electric Company
Clean Air & Energy: Air Pollution: In Depth: Testimony
Green Diesel: Fact or Fiction?
Subtracting Sulfur
Toxic Air Pollution
Danger in the Air

ARB – California Air Resources Board
Proposed Identification of Diesel Exhaust as a Toxic Air Contaminant
Toxic Air Contaminant – Staff Report/Executive Summaries

NCBI – NLM – NIH – National Center for Biotechnology Information – PubMed
Health effects of diesel exhaust emissions
Diesel exhaust and asthma: hypotheses and molecular mechanisms of action
Effects on symptoms and lung function in humans experimentally exposed to diesel exhaust
Organic brain damage in garage workers after long-term exposure to diesel exhaust fumes
Chronic effects on the respiratory tract of hamsters, mice and rats after long-term inhalation of high concentrations of filtered and unfiltered diesel engine emissions

What are the Dangers?
Environmental Guidelines – Thermal, Gas Turbine, and Diesel Driven Power Plants

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