Press Clips

News Articles

• 3/9/04 Christian Science Monitor: The old yellow school bus as a threat
• 3/4/04 Edwardsville Intelligencer: State assisting bus companies
• 3/4/04 The Harvard Gazette: Goodbye black smoke, hello green transit
• 2/22/04 Peninsula Daily News: Peninsula: School buses can burn cleaner, but not all fleets taking advantage of state program
• 10/7/03 Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Scrub that school bus exhaust
• 12/19/02 Washington Post: Diesel Trucks, Buses Fueling Pollution Problem, Officials Say; Huge Amount of Exhaust Comes From Small Slice of Traffic
• 5/16/02 Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Study confirms cancer risk from soot
• 11/02 U.S. Dept. of Energy: Alternative Fuel School Buses Earn High Marks
• 4/26/01 Environmental News Service: Diesel School Buses Could Be Headed for Junkyards
• 2/13/01 CNN: Diesel school buses loaded with toxins
• 11/1/00 Johnson Matthey: Cleaning up Dirty Diesels Wins Johnson Matthey the UK’s Biggest Engineering Innovation Prize
• 3/29/99 State of Maryland Governor’s Press Office: Governor Glendening Backs Emissions Testing for Diesel Trucks and Buses

Press Releases

• 2/3/00 Centre for Science and Environment: Global warming vs urban smog

Reports

• Monahan, Patricia. “Failing the Grade: School Bus Pollution & Children’s Health.” Slideshow presentation given at the Clean Cities Conference, May 13, 2002.
• Wargo, John. “Children’s Exposure to Diesel Exhaust on School Buses.” North Haven, Connecticut: Environment & Human Health, Inc., February 2002.
• Monahan, Patricia. “Pollution Report Card: Grading America’s School Bus Fleets.” Union of Concerned Scientists, February 2002.
• Solomon, Gina M., et al. “No Breathing in the Aisles: Diesel Exhaust Inside School Buses.” Natural Resources Defense Council and the Coalition for Clean Air, January 2001.
• “New Clean Air Standards Are No Sweat in Florida: State’s Air Already Meets Federal Goal.” Washington, D.C.: Environmental Working Group, 30 September 1997.