Sentences with phrase «diesel truck fumes»

Those studies — the most recent in 2006 — found a link between bridge traffic, particularly diesel truck fumes, and high rates of asthma and other respiratory illnesses in neighborhood residents.

An Investigative Post report produced in partnership with WGRZ has found a strong link between Peace Bridge pollution, especially diesel truck fumes, and high asthma rates in the neighborhood adjacent to the bridge.

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In addition, we go beyond organic certification standards and implement our own standards, like not using coconuts from heavily populated areas where they are exposed to polluting forces such as diesel and gas fumes from trucks and other vehicles.

«How is this environmental justice when tugboats and 500 garbage trucks a day will spew carcinogenic diesel fumes, raising asthma and lung cancer rates for children and New Yorkers?»

West Side residents have long complained about trucks crossing the Peace Bridge because of diesel fumes that have been linked to respiratory illnesses.

The DEC's study did not address health impacts, although other independent studies conducted at the Peace Bridge made a strong link between Peace Bridge pollution, especially truck diesel fumes, and high asthma rates in the nearby neighborhood.

For example, he did a study on truck drivers and found they have a much higher risk for heart attack, in part, because they are constantly around diesel fumes.

2) Every time we smell diesel fumes from the trucks that go by, our anti-oxidant stores and depleted.

We do have motorways and they are both choked and choking because of these stupid farm trucks and their diesel fumes!

The clatter, smoky fumes and remarkable fuel economy of diesel engines have nearly disappeared from the American car and light - truck scene, thanks, among other things, to cheaper gasoline.

That means that if you are driving down the road and a smoke - belching diesel truck is spewing fumes in front of the Seville, you can't just press a button to quickly switch to recirculated air.

The old man put his truck into gear and drove on, bathing her in a warm cloud of diesel fumes.

Fracking opened up vast swaths of once - quiet forest and farmland to the constant grinding of truck traffic heading to drilling rigs that operate all day and night, poisoning the air with diesel fumes and sometimes spilling toxic drilling fluids onto fields and into streams.