EcoNews - USA - Bus firms OK clean air pact
No idling near schools
New York,NY,USA -New York Daily News, by BILL EGBERT Sep 27, 2005: -- State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced yesterday that five school bus companies have agreed to reduce air pollution... The agreement, which calls for a "no idle" policy near schools and a monitoring program to enforce it, will affect more than 1,700 buses throughout the metropolitan area... State law restricts bus idling to no more than five consecutive minutes, while New York City law restricts idling to three minutes... As a result of the latest agreements, 75% of the city's school bus fleet is now covered by anti-idling agreements... The attorney general has also sealed similar pacts with the Hunts Point Meat Market, the Hunts Point Produce Market, Frito-Lay, Greyhound Lines, Community Coach, Gray Line New York Tours, Leisure Lines and Suburban Trails, covering an additional 2,300 trucks and buses... Diesel emissions have been linked to cancer, heart damage, respiratory diseases, asthma and other serious health conditions... In 2000, children living in New York City were twice as likely to be hospitalized for asthma as children in the rest of the country...
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