Diesel Technology Forum Statement On Action by the International Agency on Research for Cancer

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Diesel Technology Forum Statement On Action

by the International Agency on Research for

Cancer

PR Newswire

WASHINGTON, June 12, 2012

WASHINGTON

,

June 12, 2012

/PRNewswire/ -- Allen Schaeffer, Executive

Director of the Diesel Technology Forum, issued the following statement today

regarding the actions by the World Health Organization's International Agency

on Research for Cancer (IARC) regarding the classification of diesel exhaust:

"We welcome and support scientific discussion regarding diesel fuels and

emissions. The industry's commitment is underscored by its funding for the

independent peer-reviewed, multi-stakeholder Advanced Collaborative

Emissions Study (ACES) by the Health Effects Institute (HEI). This landmark

study sponsored by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, California Air

Resources Board, industry and HEI suggest

'few biologic effects to diesel

exhaust exposure'.

"Air pollution is a critically important health issue and the diesel industry takes

clean air concerns very seriously. Diesel engine and equipment makers, fuel

refiners and emissions control manufacturers have invested billions of dollars in

research in an ongoing effort to develop technologies that reduce emissions to

meet the increasingly diverse and stringent clean air standards in all nations

throughout the world.

"New technology diesel engines, which use ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel,

advanced engines and emissions control systems, are near zero emissions for

nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons and particulate matter. In the U.S., EPA

indicates that diesel accounts for less than six percent of all particulate matter

in the air.

"In the U.S., emissions from heavy-duty diesel trucks and buses have been

reduced by 99 percent for nitrogen oxides - an ozone precursor – and 98

percent for particulate emissions.

"Critical to this progress has been ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel which has reduced

sulfur emissions by 97 percent – from 500 PM to 15 PM - enabling advanced

emissions control devices.

"Because more than 90 percent of all global trade is powered by diesel engines,

these advancements are enabling broad international environmental and public

health benefits throughout the world. "

Several recent scientific and academic research studies have highlighted the

important advancements in clean diesel technology:

May 24, 2012 California Air Resource Board

: International scientists reported a 50

percent reduction of black carbon in ambient air over the past 20 years primarily due to

advancements in clean diesel technology.

April 12, 2012

Health Effects Institute study provides important new insights into the

emissions and health effects of the new diesel. These and related findings were

recently presented at a

CARB Research Seminar.

March 2012 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Report to Congress on

Black Carbon (BC):

"[T]he United States will achieve substantial BC emissions

reductions by 2030, largely due to controls on new mobile diesel engines."

April 23, 2012 North Carolina State University

: Diesel trucks in compliance with

newer standards showed a 98 percent decrease in NOx and 94 percent reduction in PM

emissions.

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