Your City, County or State		    [Seal]		 Your Governmental Office

[County Executive’s, Mayor’s Governor’s]
Proclamation in Support of Clean School Buses on Earth Day
In [County, City or State]

WHEREAS, 	School buses provide over 24 million children with safe transportation to and from school each day and travel 4 billion miles each year;

WHEREAS, 		There are approximately 450,000 school buses on the road nationwide, and 390,000 of those buses are diesel; 

WHEREAS, 	Diesel school buses, especially older ones that lack emissions control devices, emit particulate matter and other pollutants in diesel exhaust that can pose health hazards to children;

WHEREAS,  	These pollutants, when inhaled, may aggravate asthma and allergies or cause other serious health problems for children;

AND WHEREAS, 	Older diesel school buses can be either replaced or retrofitted with cleaner technologies and fuels to reduce harmful emissions; 

AND WHEREAS, 	[Location] has undertaken a diesel bus [replacement/retrofit] project in order to reduce diesel emissions and improve air quality;

NOW THEREFORE, I, [Name, [title] of [location] do hereby proclaim:

April 22, [Year]
As a Day for
CLEAN SCHOOL BUS AWARENESS IN HONOR OF EARTH DAY