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School Buses May Foul Air for Many Years

October 11, 2005 – New York City’s fleet of 6,200 yellow school buses is the largest in the country by far. And despite recent efforts to clean up the most polluting buses in the fleet, it may still be one of the dirtiest.

In a city with asthma rates so high that in some neighborhoods — Harlem, for example — one in four children has the disease, officials have found that efforts to reduce harmful emissions from school buses are hindered by the age of the fleet and by the fact that the buses are owned not by the city, but by outside companies.

40 Electric School Buses Headed To Washington Districts

40 ELECTRIC SCHOOL BUSES HEADED TO WASHINGTON DISTRICTS April 29, 2020 – $12 million from VW settlement will help districts slash emissions. OLYMPIA – Washington schools may be closed for the year, but when students return, some will be riding in 40 new, zero-emission electric school buses, thanks to grants from the Washington Department of […]

Experts See Worrisome Link Between Coronavirus, Pollution

EXPERTS SEE WORRISOME LINK BETWEEN CORONAVIRUS, POLLUTION April 12, 2020 – Advocates and Democratic lawmakers are raising concerns over new research that suggests environmental conditions could exacerbate the effects of the coronavirus on low-income and minority communities. A recent Harvard study found that people who live in areas with more exposure to air pollution are […]

STUDY FINDS ASTHMA IN 25% OF CHILDREN IN CENTRAL HARLEM

STUDY FINDS ASTHMA IN 25% OF CHILDREN IN CENTRAL HARLEM New York – April 19, 2003 – A study has found that one of every four children in central Harlem has asthma, which is double the rate researchers expected to find and, experts say, is one of the highest rates ever documented for an American […]

NYC to Use Fleet Vehicles as Mobile Air Quality Test Stations in the Bronx

New technology could help City better understand and address air quality concerns NEW YORK – January 21, 2020 – Mayor Bill de Blasio, Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) Commissioner Lisette Camilo, and the City of New York’s Chief Technology Officer John Paul Farmer (CTO) today announced the launch of CityScanner, a pilot program that […]

In Wake of Fatal Incidents, Fines for Idling Cars Could Go Up

MARCH 25, 2009 – Go nuts, punctuation sticklers. This sign, which either admonishes drivers for leaving their engines idling or encourages loafing youths to hold their breath, was recently spotted outside P.S. 277 in Brooklyn. Besides contributing to global warming, CO2 emissions from vehicles are a major factor in NYC’s high childhood asthma rates; the […]