Coal-Tar pavement Sealants

What are polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)?

• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Potential human health impacts of PAHs

• Driveway Sealants Can Put Philadelphia Homeowners at Risk of Personal Injury
• CERCLA Priority List of Hazardous Substances
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 11th Report on Carcinogens
• 11th Report on Carcinogens - PAHs
• 11th Report on Carcinogens – Coal Tars and Coal Tar Pitches

Potential environmental impacts of PAHs

• Nonadditive effects of PAHs on Early Vertebrate Development: mechanisms and implications for risk assessment (Toxicological Sciences, 2008)
• Perspective on Ecotoxicology of PAHs to Fish (Human and Ecological Risk Assessment:  An International Journal, 2007) 
• The Effects of Coal Tar Based Pavement Sealer on Amphibian Development and Metamorphosis (Ecotoxicology, 2006)
• Evaluation of Fish Early Life-Stage Toxicity Models of Chronic Embryonic Exposures to Complex Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Mixtures (Toxicological Sciences, 2004)
• EPA Ecological Toxicity Information on PAHs

Pavement sealants as a source of PAHs

• New USGS Study Reveals Cancer Risk from Parking Lot Dust Entering Homes (EMSL Analytical, Inc., 2010)
• Contaminated House Dust Linked to Parking Lots With Coal Tar Sealant(Science Magazine, 2010)
• Parking Lot Sealant Raises Health Concerns (Beasley Allen, 2010)
• Driveway sealants may be hazard (Water World, 2010)
• Influence of Coal-Tar Sealcoat and Other Carbonaceous Materials on Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Loading in an Urban Watershed (Environmental Science & Technology, 2010)
• Coal-Tar-Based Parking Lot Sealcoat: An Unrecognized Source of PAH to Settled House Dust (Environmental Science & Technology, 2010)
• PAHs Underfoot: Contaminated Dust from Coal-Tar Sealcoated Pavement is Widespread in the United States (Environmental Science & Technology, 2009)
• Occurence of PAHs Below Coal-Tar-Sealed Parking Lots and Effects on Stream Benthic Macroinvertebrate Communities (Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 2007)
• Parking Lot Sealcoat: A Major Source of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Urban and Suburban Environments (United States Geological Survey, 2006)
• Parking Lot Sealcoat:  An Unrecognized Source of Urban Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (Environmental Science & Technology, 2005)
• Response to Comment on “Parking Lot Sealcoat: An Unrecognized Source of Urban Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons” (Environmental Science & Technology, 2006)

What other communities/states have done

• City to Hear About Coal Tar Effects Tonight
• Scientists to weigh in on coal-tar issue in meeting with Springfield City Council
• Maplewood approves coal tar ban
• White Bear Lake ordinance bans some driveway sealants
• Opponents of coal tar ban to speak today in Springfield
• Local business to stop offering coal tar sealant
• Concerns Growing in Springfield, MO Over Coal Tar Sealant
• Study sees parking lot dust as a cancer risk
• Austin Presentation on Coal Tar Sealant Ban Part 2
• County Spreads Word of Possible Harmful Effects of Coal Tar Sealant
• EPA Agrees to Study Health Effects of Coal Tar
• Washington, D.C.- Coal-Tar Ban
• Washington, D.C.- $2500 fine for Coal-Tar Use
• Austin, Tx Coal-Tar Sealant Ban
• Dane County, Wisconsin Coal-Tar Sealant Ban
• Washington, D.C. Coal-Tar Sealant Ban
• State of Minnesota Coal-Tar Sealant Legislation