Are Yellow Buses The Safest Way To Get Our Kids To School?

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