The Union of Concerned Scientists just released a national study of school bus pollution. Ohio, as usual, is average with a grade of "C" for soot pollution and "average" marks for effort to move to cleaner technology. According to the UCS website:
The exhaust from diesel fuel, which powers about 95 percent of the more than 505,000 school buses on U.S. roads today, is linked with asthma, heart disease, cancer, and even premature death. Recent studies have found that pollution can concentrate inside school buses, leading to even higher exposures for children who ride buses. Luckily, today’s cleaner fuels and pollution controls for diesel vehicles can dramatically cut pollution from school buses. Many states have made progress in reducing pollution, but we are still a long way from ensuring that our children are riding in “clean” school buses.It is tragically fitting that an industrial model of education produces industrial smog. Hoepfuly this report yet another inconvenient truth about our own impact on our ability to live on this planet.
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