World Health Organization condemns diesel exhaust as Class 1 carcinogen

Agency findings don't take clean-diesel technology into account

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A recent WHO study on diesel exhaust doesn't take modern clean-diesel technology into account.

News flash: Diesel exhaust is bad for you, particularly if you're a miner.

Following eight days of deliberation, the World Health Organization's cancer-research board has named diesel exhaust a Class 1 carcinogen. The finding puts the fuel in the same category as asbestos.

Unfortunately, as shopautoweek.com explains, the WHO findings are mainly based on decades-old environmental studies and don't take recent “clean-diesel” technology into account. Instead, the organization examined the impact of the exhaust on miners, who are exposed to occupational levels of diesel particulates in tightly enclosed spaces.