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Clean School Bus Program
The goals of Clean School Bus USA is to reduce children's exposure to diesel exhaust and the amount of air pollution created by diesel school buses. Consider these facts:
- 25 million American children ride school buses daily.
- Students spend an average of an hour and a half in a school bus each day.
- School buses drive more than four billion miles each year.
School buses are the safest way for children to get to school. However, pollution from older diesel vehicles has health implications for everyone, especially children. By working together, we can reduce pollution from public school buses -- making sure that school buses are a clean way for children to get to school too. Clean School Bus USA brings together partners from education, transportation, business, public-health and community organizations to work toward:
- Eliminating unnecessary public school bus idling.
- Retrofitting school buses with emission-control technologies and/or fueling them with cleaner fuels.
- Replacing the oldest buses in the fleet with new, less-polluting buses.
- Using materials and ideas for Clean School Bus Outreach
Magic School Bus
EPA, in collaboration with Scholastic has created a new book in the popular "Magic School Bus" series for children. The "Magic School Bus Gets Cleaned Up" focuses on health-related environmental topics.
