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NUS-led study: beltway to divert diesel trucks in São Paulo improved air quality and public health

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The original intent of building the beltway was to enable heavy-duty vehicles to bypass the densely populated neighborhoods, and thereby ease traffic congestion in the inner-city roads. We combine rich panel data on road congestion, ambient NO x concentrations (as a signature of diesel exhaust), and hospital admissions and deaths.

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UNECE: claim that diesel on-road vehicles are the cause of increased lung cancer is misleading

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The claim that emissions from diesel engine exhausts from road transport are the main cause of lung cancer in humans thus “ needs to be seriously challenged, ” the paper concluded. —“Diesel Engines Exhausts: Myths and Realities”. Thus to improve the quality of air around us more attention must be given to the primary PM emitters.

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