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Research shows that replacing or retrofitting dirty old diesel school buses
can reduce the pollution inhaled by students significantly and can even lead
to better health and higher standardized test scores.
Credit: madame.furie, FlickrCC.
Dear EarthTalk: I’ve heard
that school buses cause a lot of
pollution, especially for the kids
riding inside. Is anyone making
greener school buses yet?
-- Jake McConnell,
Philadelphia, PA
Now that school is back in
session, those big yellow diesel-
fueled school buses are all over
the roads again. While they’re
relatively safe—and definitely
old school—they’re also big
polluters, chugging along at 4-6
miles to the gallon while creating
a cloud of harmful airborne
pollutants.
According to the non-profit
Clean Air Trust (CAT), some 25
million American kids travelling
on half a million school buses
every day are exposed to five to
15 times more air toxins than the
rest of us. “Those buses travel
more than four billion miles each
year and these kids spend three
billion hours on [them],” reports
the group. “About 90 percent
of these buses run on diesel
fuel, annually emitting 3,000
tons of cancer-causing soot and
95,000 tons of smog-causing
compounds.”
If you don’t think all that
pollution is having a negative
effect, think again. A March
2019 study from researchers at
Georgia State University found
that students did significantly
better on standardized English
tests and marginally better in
math when they spent their
commutes riding in school buses
retrofitted to reduce emissions
by 95 percent as compared to
students riding in non-upgraded
buses. The researchers conclude
that “engine retrofits can have
meaningful and cost-effective
impacts on health and cognitive
functioning.”
Luckily the retrofits are easy
to come by and relatively
inexpensive, especially when you
factor in the costs of health care
to treat sick kids, not to mention
the price tag for raising kids’ test
scores in other ways. Retrofitting
10 percent of the average school
district’s bus fleet in Georgia, for
instance, would cost less than
$100,000, a drop in the bucket
of the state’s $10.6 billion K-12
public schools budget.
And beginning in October
2018, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) set
aside $9 million to help pay for
upgrading older diesel school
buses nationwide. School
districtsandotherpublicagencies
charged with transporting school
kids can apply for rebates of up
to $20,000 per bus to help cover
the retrofits on up to 10 individual
buses.
Retrofitting is a great start, but
even better would be replacing
old buses with new, more
efficient all-electric models.
But few school districts can
justify the $300,000 price tag
to replace perfectly functional
older diesel buses. That didn’t
stop the school district in White
Plains, New York, though, which
purchased five electric buses last
year with financial help from the
local utility, Consolidated Edison,
and a grant from the state.
These outside contributions
helped bring the final cost to the
school district down to something
along the lines of buying new
diesel buses. While ConEd
gets the benefit of good public
relations and good karma, it also
gets to use the buses during the
summer as excess electricity
storage that can be moved
around to where it’s needed most
(when the air conditioners are
blazing). White Plains is hoping
other school districts across the
country will follow a similar model
to clean up their acts.
CONTACTS: Clean Air
Trust, cleanairtrust.org; “School
bus emissions, student health
and academic performance,”
sciencedirect.com/science/article/
abs/pii/S0272775719301530#!.
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‘Dusty Britches” here along
with “Peppermint Patty” and the
“South African Queen”…
The trout fishing is spotty right
now… a few nice ones coming
out, but the pan fish are still
coming out consistently. Some
Channel Catfish are also being
taken. My folks are getting ready
for the “O.P. Ball” Kids Fishin
in the Pines Derby… We are
expecting a major trout plant
from Mt. Lassen before the event
and we have lots of prizes and
awards showing up to help out
the day for the young anglers.
We have a slight blue-green
algae bloom going on right now,
but it should resolve itself in time
for the event. The trail around the
lake has been mowed as has the
area below Chambers Park. It’s
countdown to September 28th….
the day of the big show. If you
are not familiar with the event,
check it out on our web-site…
lots to see.
Our Wisconsin “Badgers”…
Badger is hyping up his team as
they prepare for next Saturday’s
match-up with Michigan…
“Fog Horn-Leg Horn” is a great
example of dedicated fan… win
or lose, so, “ON WISCONSIN”.
We survived Friday the 13th
aligning with a full moon on the
night we decided to venture
down the hill to El Cajon and
take in some art gallery stuff
that a friend was part of, an owl
who has taken up residence
outside our bedroom window,
and a brand spankin new dry-wet
vacuum that had its attachments
and power cord chewed up by a
10 month old yellow lab… life is
good! Til next time… happy trails.
“If you don’t do stupid things
when you are young, you’ll have
nothing to laugh about when you
get old”
…Albert Einstein
“Tight lines and bent rods”…
Dusty Britches
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the naysayers. So I hope the
Roundtable will look to us—
and my colleagues across the
nonprofit sector— for hard-
learned lessons from operating
models that stand on purpose
and community benefit.
In Memphis, where our
headquarters are, the legacy
of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.—
his achievements and tragic
death—permeates our soul and
guides what we strive to achieve.
For those business leaders
whose lodestar is now a fairer,
more equitable, sustainable
economic and environmental
reality for consumers and—
with the aperture widening on
“shareholder”—for broader
communities and future
generations, I look forward to
help-ing you answer the call
from Dr. King that hangs over my
desk: “Life’s most persistent and
urgent question is, ‘what are you
doing for others?’” Learn more at
www.stjude.org.
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The punishment which the wise
suffer who refuse to take part in
the government, is to live under the
government of worse men.
— Plato
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This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when
the baby gets hold of a hammer.
— Will Rogers
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Luke Mathews 4 years old. Trout
from Chambers on a nightcrawler.
