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The goals of Clean School Bus USA are to reduce children's exposure to diesel exhaust and the amount of air pollution created by diesel school buses.
- 24 million American children ride school buses daily.
- On average, these students spend an hour and a half each day in a school bus.
- School buses drive more than 4 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 also a clean way for children to get to school. Clean School Bus USA brings together partners from business, education, transportation, and public-health organizations to work toward these goals:
- Encouraging policies and practices to eliminate unnecessary public school bus idling.
- Upgrading (“retrofitting”) buses that will remain in the fleet with better emission-control technologies and/or fueling them with cleaner fuels.
- Replacing the oldest buses in the fleet with new, less-polluting buses.