Diesel Particulate Matter Health Risk Assessment for the West Oakland Community: Preliminary Summary of Results

The Air Resources Board (ARB or Board), in cooperation with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, Maritime Port of Oakland, and Union Pacific Railroad, is performing this study to help understand the potential public health impacts from diesel particulate matter (diesel PM) emissions on the West Oakland Community. The initial focus of the study was the Maritime Port of Oakland (the Port), but was later expanded to include locomotives, non-Port marine vessels and trucks and other significant sources of diesel PM emissions in and around the West Oakland Community. The entire study area included the Port, the ocean to the west of the Golden Gate Bridge out to the outer buoys, the inner bay waterway between the Golden Gate Bridge and the Port, and the nearby communities and covered a 100 km by 100 km area (about 3,800 square miles). The purpose of the study is to: