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Diesel Exposure Videos and News Story Archives
Whether you work around diesels or simply commute to work by car, train or by bus, you are exposed to harmful diesel exhaust every day. Watch archived network news stories and "chase videos" in traffic and behind dirty and retrofit clean diesels, filmed by CATF researchers in conjunction with simultaneous air quality monitoring. The video is combined with the simultaneous fine and ultrafine particle data here for the first time to illustrate the magnitude of the problem, but more importantly the dramatic effectiveness of the diesel particle filter that nearly eliminates the problem.

The Carbon Dioxide-Equivalent Benefits of Reducing Black Carbon Emissions from U.S. Class 8 Trucks Using Diesel Particulate Filters: A Preliminary Analysis
Clean Air Task Force outlines a simple method to quantify the CO2-equivalent climate benefits of removing black carbon from the diesel exhaust emissions of tractor-trailer trucks using diesel particulate filters (DPFs)

Diesel and Health in America: The Lingering Threat
For the first time, using EPA's methodology, Abt Associates for the Clean Air Task Force, estimates that diesels are responsible for heart attacks, cancer and over 20,000 premature deaths. Between now and 2030, 100,000 premature deaths could be avoided by an aggressive but feasible national program to clean up today's dirty diesels

No Escape from Diesel Exhaust: How to Reduce Commuter Exposure
Although we spend only about six percent of our day commuting to and from work, it is during that time when we may receive over half of our exposure to diesel exhaust. Using comparable instruments and research techniques as those employed by health researchers at major universities, Clean Air Task Force (CATF) investigated the exposure to diesel particles during typical commutes in four cities and emission control retrofits on diesels.

New Diesel Retrofit Rebate Web Site
A new rebate program was developed to make it simpler, faster and less costly to disperse money for diesel retrofits, which can reduce toxic diesel pollution by more than 85%. The program is being piloted in Pittsburgh. A description and forms are available in the site.

Clean Air Task Force School Bus Study
A Multi-City Investigation of the Effectiveness of Retrofit Emissions Controls in Reducing Exposures to Particulate Matter in School Buses

Clean Construction Principles for Federally-Funded Highway Projects
The Associated General Contractors of America and the Clean Air Task Force agree on the following "Clean Construction Principles" that both organizations encourage Congress to include in the legislation necessary to reauthorize federal funding for highway and other transportation projects beyond September 30, 2009. The two organizations share an interest in improving air quality, and to that end, they recommend that Congress set aside a significant portion of the funds that Congress has historically provided for the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) program (and/or an appropriate percentage of other funds that the relevant legislation authorizes Congress to appropriate for surface transportation projects) for a new set of contractual requirements intended to reduce emissions from equipment needed to construct federally funded transportation projects. By contract, these "Clean Construction Principles" would require the contractors constructing these projects to employ diesel emissions reduction options on designated pieces of off-road diesel equipment. The two organizations recognize the challenges of implementing these principles, but believe that the benefits to the environment and for public health would justify the necessary effort.