Lobbies - USA - Student lobbies for cleaner buses
8-year-old Anni with an "ecological" Science fair project
RED HOOK,Rhinebeck,NY,USA -Rhinebeck Gazette Advertiser -4 Aug 2005: -- When it came time for the second-grade science fair, 8-year-old Red Hook resident Annie Sullivan knew she wanted her project to be something helpful... Sullivan devised an experiment to test air pollution in six pre-determined areas... The testing device was basic enough: a piece of plain white printer paper or copy paper, cut into a small square, smeared with a circle of Vaseline or other petroleum jelly product and placed in an area out of reach of curious hands and four-legged friends. The particle pollutants in the air actually stick to the jellied circle and can be counted after observation under a microscope... the sample collected from the tree fort had the smallest amount of pollution over the 48-hour collection period... The most pollution was found at the intersection of Main and Market streets - the center of the Village of Red Hook. While there is the logical connection of the intersection being the busiest in the town and village, there is also the concern of it being frequented by the most pedestrians... A close second was the sample collected from the bus lot... Sullivan's collected sample found 60 particles of pollution at the bus yard, compared to 70 at the Four Corners and just six at her tree fort... Sullivan urged the district administrators to continue to pursue action to make the more than 40 buses in the school's fleet "cleaner" by purchasing and installing special catalytic converters designed to "filter" the emissions from the buses... A diesel oxidation catalyst muffler, which can be installed onto most of the buses in Red Hook's fleet, would reduce emissions approximately 30% and cost approximately $1,500 per bus... A diesel emissions filter would result in a more significant reduction, but comes at a cost of around $10,000 per bus... Popp estimates that 20 of the 43 total buses in the fleet would need attention...
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