The Biden administration is pushing to make diesel-powered school buses a thing of the past.
Vice President Kamala Harris recently announced additional funding to the Environmental Protection Agency’s new Clean School Bus Program, which provides money for more than five years to replace diesel-fueled school buses with clean and zero-emission models.
Almeta Cooper, a health policy expert and the national field manager for Moms Clean Air Force, says asthma is the leading chronic disease among children in the U.S. and it’s worsened by pollution from diesel-fueled school buses.
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