Links

• California’s South Coast Air Quality Management District Rule #1195: Clean On-Road School Buses
• Coalition for Clean Air: Fast Facts – Statistics about Air Pollution
• Environment and Human Health, Inc.: Diesel Exhaust and Children
• Healthy Schools Network, Inc.
• Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee (MSRC): Accomplishments – Sample funding mechanism for encouraging the replacement of dirty diesel vehicles with newer clean air vehicles
• Natural Resources Defense Council: Clean Air and Transportation
• New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission: New Jersey’s Roadside Diesel Smoke Emission Program for Trucks
• Rebuild America: EnergySmart Schools: Bus Transportation
• U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy: Clean Cities Program
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency:
  • Air Toxics Website
  • Voluntary Diesel Retrofit Program
• Union of Concerned Scientists: CleanSchoolBus.org

Funding Assistance

There are a number of state and federal assistance programs that can help your school or district with clean diesel projects, which can offer money for retrofitting old buses, purchasing alternative-fuel capable new buses, educating parents and the community about the dangers of diesel exhaust, and establishing “no idling” signage at and near the school.

• Federal Pollution Prevention Grants – Regional, state, and tribal environmental assistance activities that address preventative approaches to the generation and management of pollutants across all environmental media: air, land, and water.
• Environmental Justice Grants – Financial assistance to eligible applicants that are working on or plan to carry out projects to address environmental justice issues.
• Environmental Education Grants – Financial support for projects that design, demonstrate, or disseminate environmental education practices, methods, or techniques. This could include funding for no idling signs.