Cancer risk from ports

A draft study produced for the California Air Resources Board (CARB) published in early October suggests that air emissions from ships and cargo handling equipment in the port of Los Angeles and Long Beach – the busiest port complex in the US – raise the risk of cancer for people living up to 15 miles inland The report by the CARB Diesel Particulate Matter Exposure Assessment Study for the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, suggests that the 50,000 people living closest to the two ports face a higher-than-average risk of developing cancer because of exposure to particulate emissions, and that residents living within 15 miles of the ports face a slightly higher risk than Californians as a whole.