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EDF calls for 90 percent reduction in NYC school bus soot pollution

Photo by Kevindooley. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. If your child rides the bus to school in New York City, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) would like you to know that he or she is being exposed to "harmful pollution levels" during the daily ride. The EDF issued a report yesterday that calls on the NYC Department of Education to cut diesel soot pollution by 90 percent and suggests using diesel retrofit technologies to do so. On top of that, EDF recommends retiring the buses three years sooner than is now standard. And, if ... Read more →

Schools go to four-day school week, make lots of other cuts thanks to high fuel prices Sebastian Blanco

Photo by iboy_daniel. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. All of those reduced-fuel-use school buses (examples here and here) can't help some school systems continue on as normal in the ...

Chelan School District happy with hybrid bus Domenick Yoney

Remember back when we told you about the hybrid buses that IC Corp and Enova Systems were making together for a handful of schools? With today's high cost of diesel and the worries about bus ...

School buses causing too much pollution? Jeremy Korzeniewski

Stephan Wilkinson at The Truth About Cars has noticed that school buses in his neighborhood seem to all leave at the same time, carrying only a few kids each. Additionally, they idle for long periods ...

EDF calls for 90 percent reduction in NYC school bus soot pollution 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Photo by Kevindooley. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. If your child rides the bus to school in New York City, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) would like you to know that he or she is being exposed to "harmful pollution levels" during the daily ride. The EDF issued a report ...

Schools go to four-day school week, make lots of other cuts thanks to high fuel prices 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Photo by iboy_daniel. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. All of those reduced-fuel-use school buses (examples here and here) can't help some school systems continue on as normal in the current economy. Thanks to high fuel prices - among other reasons - the four-day "work" week that is ...

Chelan School District happy with hybrid bus 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Remember back when we told you about the hybrid buses that IC Corp and Enova Systems were making together for a handful of schools? With today's high cost of diesel and the worries about bus pollution, we wondered how those lucky few feel about their buses now. Thanks to an article in the Wenatchee ...

School buses causing too much pollution? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Stephan Wilkinson at The Truth About Cars has noticed that school buses in his neighborhood seem to all leave at the same time, carrying only a few kids each. Additionally, they idle for long periods of time before and after they leave, at which time they belch out harmful toxins. He seems to think ...


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