Grassroots How - USA - Parents Win Cleaner School Buses
San Francisco,CAL,USA -Connect For Kids (Washington,D.C.), by: Elisa Gahng -Mar 6, 2006: -- Until recently, San Francisco children rode to school in buses whose diesel fumes can trigger—and even cause—asthma... "Pollution inside an idling bus is five to fifteen times higher than outside," says Maria Luz Torre, advocate with the San Francisco chapter of Parent Voices... But thanks to Asthma Relief for Kids, a project of San Francisco Parent Voices, San Francisco school buses are now less polluting. ARK parents built on previous asthma campaigns, got more informed about asthma, gathered support, and worked with the school board to require new air filters on school buses—the resolution passed in February 2005...
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