STUDY * USA - Idling school buses worse than re-starting
Idling for more than three minutes generates more pollution than stopping and re-starting the engine
NY,USA -Lower Hudson blogs, by Laura Incalcaterra -May 30, 2007: -- In case you haven’t heard, the results of a new EPA study concluded that idling school buses is actually worse than re-starting the vehicles... The EPA studied school bus exhaust levels when the buses were parked but engines kept running and calculated the benefits from turning them off for various periods and then restarting them, an agency press release said... The study concluded that idling for more than three minutes generates more pollution than stopping and re-starting the engine — debunking a widely held belief of some drivers. Turning the engine off cuts carbon monoxide, fine particles, nitrogen oxide, and carbon dioxide, which is a greenhouse gas... “Pollution from school buses has health implications for everyone, especially asthmatic children,” said Alan J. Steinberg, EPA Regional Administrator...
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