Fossil Fuel Use: Oil, Coal and Natural Gas
Benzene is a well-established carcinogen with specific links to leukemia as well as breast and urinary tract cancers. Exposure to benzene reduces red and white blood cell production in bone marrow; decreases auto-immune cell function (T-cell and B-cells); and has been linked to sperm-head abnormalities and generalized chromosome aberrations.
Benzene is one of the largest-volume petrochemical solvents used in the fossil fuel industry. It is a major component in all major fossil fuel production: oil, coal and gas.
People are exposed to it from inhaling automobile exhaust and gasoline fumes, industrial burning such as oil and coal combustion, and exposure to fracking fluids...
2. Sulfur Dioxide (SO2)
3. Nitrogen Oxides (NOx)
4. Petroleum Coke (Pet Coke)
5. Formaldehyde
6. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH)
7. Mercury
8. Silica (Silicon Dust/Fracking Sand)
9. Radon
10. Hydrofluoric Acid (HF) / Hydrogen Fluoride
