ATA Chides Diesel-Cancer Link

December 3, 1999 11:12 AM, EST

Trucking’s national trade association said the Environmental Protection Agency’s conclusion that diesel exhaust is likely to cause cancer is not based on “sound science.”

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American Trucking Associations criticized the agency’s draft of a document on diesel emissions during Dec. 1 remarks before the Clean Air Science Advisory Committee. The federation listed both substantive and procedural grounds for its objections to the report, which the panel released for comment in November.

In its executive summary of the 600-page draft, EPA said that despite some uncertainties in determining the magnitude of the risk for people exposed to diesel exhaust, “the evidence for a likely human lung cancer hazard by inhalation is persuasive.”

ATA said it is “deeply troubled by the EPA’s overall conclusions,” which the trucking group claimed were “clearly not supported by the evidence within the report itself and should be summarily rejected outright.”

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