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STUDY * USA - Fails to consider new truck emission reductions
Washington,DC,USA -Bulk Transporter-Dec 18, 2008: -- A study of 31,135 trucking workers that indicated they showed an elevated risk of lung cancer with increasing years of work does not accurately portray today’s industry, Glen Kedzie, vice-president and environmental affairs counsel, American Trucking Associations, said in a letter to Bulk Transporter... Kedzie also pointed out that in 2007, diesel trucks incorporated diesel particulate filters to reduce tailpipe emissions of particulate matter by 90 percent... "Today, on-road diesel engines contribute just one percent of the nation's total emissions of volatile organic compounds, carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide and less than 1.5 percent of the nation's total emissions of fine particulate matter"... "Fine particulate emissions from on-road diesel engines have been cut by more than half over the past decade. On-road heavy-duty diesel trucks produce half as much fine particulates as off-road sources, including bulldozers, tractors, railroad locomotives, and ships. Also, it is also important to note that motor carriers voluntarily supplied driver records to these researchers in hopes of finding ways to improve conditions for their highly valued drivers"...
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