CLEAN AIR RESOLUTION Resolution Regarding Air Quality in
Cumberland County Authored by the Clean Air Board of Central
Pennsylvania pollution from diesel engine emissions has been
proven to be harmful to our health. Diesel exhaust can contain
40 hazardous air pollutants, 15 of which are known human
carcinogens. Fine particles from diesel emissions have been
linked to heart attacks, asthma, stroke, stunted lung growth and
premature death. Children and seniors are at the greatest risk
from these emissions1; and air quality has been shown to be
especially degraded in Cumberland County and EPA has designated
the County as being in non-attainment of fine particle (PM 2.5)
and ozone standards. The average lifetime diesel soot cancer
risk here is 393 times greater than the accepted EPA cancer
level of one in one million2. Cumberland County is among the 2%
most polluted counties in the nation for fine particle
pollution3; and in August 2005 more than 100 doctors in the
region submitted a paid advertisement to local me