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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 the Department does so, EDF says, it “could be using the largest, cleanest school bus fleet in the country within just a few years.” It certainly will take a while to do so, because there are more than 7,000 public school buses in the city. A few other options from the ABG archives:
[Source: Environmental Defense Fund]
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