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Failing The Grade: How Diesel School Buses Threaten Our Children's Health.
Publication Date: May 2008
Publisher(s): Coalition for Clean Air
Author(s): Lesley Dobalian; Todd R. Campbell
Funder(s): Energy Foundation; Environment Now
Funder(s): Energy Foundation; Environment Now
Topic: Environment (Pollution and environmental degradation)
Transportation (Motor vehicles)
Type: Report
Abstract:
It's time for school and as dutiful parents, we carefully escort our children to the curbside to await that yellow school bus to safely deliver our kids to the classroom. We entrust the public school transportation system with our children because we believe it to be safe, reliable and convenient. Although our children return home from school appearing safe and healthy, what we may fail to see is the real, physical damage that can take hold inside the deep recesses of our children's lungs due to diesel exhaust exposure.