Clean School Bus Proclamation
[Your City, County or State] | [Seal] | [Your Governmental Office] |
[County Executive's, Mayor's Governor's]
Proclamation in Support of Clean School Buses 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:
[Date]
As a Day for
CLEAN SCHOOL BUS AWARENESS