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EDF calls for 90 percent reduction in NYC school bus soot pollution

Posted from AutoblogGreen 62 days ago
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Filed under: Diesel, Green DailyPhoto by Kevindooley. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0.If your child rides the bus to school in New York City, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) would like you to know that he or she is being exposed to "harmful pollution levels" during the daily ride. The EDF issued a report yesterday that calls on the NYC Department of Education to cut diesel soot pollution by 90 percent and suggests using diesel retrofit technologies to do so. On top of that, EDF recommends retiring the buses three years sooner than is now standard. And, if the Department does s... (original story)