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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 2012
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Agency: Diesel fumes cause lung cancer California Air Resources Board inspector Paul Leon prepares to test the emissions of a diesel truck in 2006.
World Health Organization first to elevate diesel to carcinogen level THE NEW YORK TIMES
NEW YORK — Diesel fumes cause lung cancer, the World Health Organization declared last week, and experts said the fumes were more carcinogenic than secondhand cigarette smoke. The WHO decision, the first to elevate diesel to the “known carcinogen� level, may eventually affect some American workers who are heavily exposed to exhaust. It is particularly relevant to poor countries, where trucks, generators, and farm and factory machinery routinely belch clouds of sooty smoke and fill the air with sulfurous particulates. The United States and other wealthy nations have less of a problem because they require modern diesel engines to burn much cleaner than they did even a decade ago. Most industries, like
mining, already have limits on the amount of diesel fumes to which workers may be exposed. The medical director of the American Cancer Society praised the ruling by the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, saying his group “has for a long time had concerns about diesel.� The cancer society is likely to come to the same conclusion the next time its scientific committee meets, said the director, Dr. Otis W. Brawley. “I don’t think it’s bad to have a diesel car,� Brawley added. “I don’t think it’s good to breathe its exhaust. I’m not concerned about people who walk past a diesel vehicle; I’m a little concerned about people like toll collectors, and I’m very concerned about people like miners,
who work where exhaust is concentrated.� Debra T. Silverman, a federal cancer researcher who headed an influential study published in March that led to Tuesday’s decision, said she was “totally in support� of the WHO ruling and expected that the government would soon follow
L y o n , France, after a weeklong scientific meeting. It also THE ASSOCIATED PRESS said diesel exhaust was suit in declaring diesel a possible cause of bladder exhaust a carcinogen. cancer. Three separate federal Diesel exhaust now agencies already classify shares the WHO’s Group 1 diesel exhaust as a “likely carcinogen status with smokcarcinogen,� a “potential ing, asbestos, ultraviolet occupational carcinogen� or radiation, alcohol and other “reasonably anticipated to elements that pose cancer be a human carcinogen.� risks. The WHO decision was Silverman said her announced Tuesday in research indicated that occu-
pational diesel exposure was a far greater lung cancer risk than passive cigarette smoking — but a much smaller risk than smoking two packs a day. For years, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and the National Toxicology Program of the National Institutes of Health have rated diesel as a potential, not proven, carcinogen.
Forum reacts warily The Diesel Technology Forum, which represents car and truck companies and others that make diesel engines, reacted cautiously to the WHO ruling, noting that modern diesel engines used in the United States and other wealthy countries burn low sulfur fuel, so new trucks and buses emit 98 percent less particulates than old ones did and 99 percent less nitrogen oxide, which adds to ozone buildup.
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