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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
