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would spread benefits across the Diesel Pollution
country, and spur states to California Leads the Way: Die:
develop their own programs with in clean vehicles Public Health
California Diesel Cleanup Program
matching funds. Of the $1 billion California Diesel Risk Reduction Plan California Diesel Risk Reductic
program, 70 percent would go to Clean Construction Equipment Pollution from School Buses M
the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to distribute, while to Your Health
30 percent would go directly to states. Sick of Soot: Solutions to Cali
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diesel advocates across the nation to ensure that the money Has Heavy Diesel Equipment I
authorized for this important program is fully appropriated Diesel Engines and Public Hea
starting in the Fiscal Year 2007 interior appropriations bill (this
is the bill that handles funding for the EPA).
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TOXIC AIR
Effects of Diesel Fuel on Y.our Health
Diesel engines produce tons of air pollutants over its
lifetime posing major health hazards. Microscopic particle
matter (soot) comes directly from the tail pipe of a diesel-
powered engine. Soot particles are small enough to
penetrate the cells of the lungs, they can have an
environmental lifetime of 1 to 3 weeks and can travel long
distances. Nationwide, soot from diesel engines cause
more than 15,000 premature deaths every year! Children,
because of their developing lungs, and elderly are most
vulnerable to soot's deadly effects.
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Soot affects people "With:
Soot is linked to:
· Preexisting respiratory
conditions · Cancer
· Chronic bronchitis · Respiratory illness
· Asthm.a · PrelUature death
· Heart disease · Birth defects
· EInphysem.a
(Sources: Union of Concerned Scientists and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency)
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