| While those yellow buses are the safest
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| | full budget for School Bus and diesel
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| way to get our kids to school each day,
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| | emissions reductions while restoring
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| millions of Americas kids are still
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| | funding for key state air quality
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| riding aging school buses that emit
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| | programs. State-by-State:
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| unhealthy diesel exhaust. There is no
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| | What is your state grade? For details
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| warning sign on the back of diesel school
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| | about these grades, read the Pollution
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| buses that the black smoke coming out of
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| | Report Card.STATE:SOOT POLLUTION
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| the tailpipe could be hazardous to
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| | GRADE:CLEANUP PROGRAM RANK:SMOG POLLUTION
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| childrens health - but there should be.
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| | RANK:These are the grads given to each
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| Diesel fumes can cause or exacerbate
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| | state:Alabama-B/Alaska-B /Arizona-D
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| asthma, lung disease, and cancer, and
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| | Arkansas-D /California-C /Colorado-D
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| have even been linked to premature
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| | Connecticut-B /Delaware-B /District of
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| death."Major victory", the transportation
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| | Columbia-B /Florida-C /Georgia-C
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| bill passed in 2005 included the creation
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| | Hawaii-D /Idaho-C /Illinois-C /Indiana-B
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| of the National Clean School Bus Grant
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| | Iowa-C /Kansas-C /Kentucky-C /Louisiana-D
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| Program. In his Fiscal Year 2007 budget
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| | /Maine-B /Maryland B /Massachusetts B
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| request, the president called for $50
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| | Michagan C /Minnesota D /Mississippi-C
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| million in funding for grants to clean up
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| | Missouri-B /Montana-D /Nebraska-D
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| school buses and other polluting diesel
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| | Nevada-B /New Hampshire-C /New Jersey-B
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| equipment. This represents marked
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| | New Mexico-C /New York-B/North Carolina-C
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| progress from the current, Ad Hoc School
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| | North Dakota-C /Ohio-C /Oklahoma-D
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| Bus grant program that received only $7.5
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| | Oregon-C /Pennsylvania-B/Rhode Island-C
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| million. Unfortunately, the president
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| | South Carolina-D /South Dakota-D
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| asked for $35 million in cuts to state
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| | Tennessee-B
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| air programs that help implementing key
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| | Texas-C /Utah-D /Vermont-C /Virginia-C
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| Diesel cleanup programs. Please contact
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| | Washington-D /West Virginia-C
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| your senators and ask them to sign the
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| | Wisconsin-C /Wyoming-B .
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| letters supporting the administrations
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