Durham School Services, the second largest private school bus operator in the state, agreed to start phasing in clean school buses to districts they serve throughout California by the end of this year, with full phase-in by 2014. As school districts across the nation struggle to improve air quality on board school buses, this move significantly reduces children’s exposure to diesel exhaust and confirms Durham’s commitment to the health and safety of California school children. Details and Downloads
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Environmental Groups Settle With Durham School Services for Clean School Buses
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007Lawsuit over diesel fumes on school buses, Leaky passenger cabins said to expose kids to exhaust
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006San Francisco Chronicle story about ELF’s litigation against Laidlaw Transit, Inc. Read Article.
ELF Sues School Bus Contractor for Exposures to Diesel Exhaust Inside School Buses
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006ELF, et.al v. LAIDLAW TRANSIT INC., et al.
(children’s exposure to diesel engine exhaust)
ELF is joined by Our Children’s Earth Foundation in litigation against Laidlaw Transit, Inc., the largest school bus contractor in North America, for failing to warn parents that children who ride diesel buses are exposed to diesel engine exhaust, a mixture of chemicals known to cause cancer. Recent studies have shown that a significant amount of the pollution on a school bus is “self-pollution” from the bus’ own exhaust and a child riding inside a diesel school bus may be exposed to as much as 4 times the level of toxic diesel engine exhaust as someone riding in a car along the same route. The lawsuit is filed under California’s Proposition 65 (the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986) and seeks a court order to provide warnings about the diesel engine exhaust by the time the next school year starts.
Read Original Complaint, filed May 2, 2006 (pdf)
New Report Shows Popular Potato Chips Have High Levels of Cancer-Causing Toxin
Thursday, June 16th, 2005Environmental Law Foundation files suit against potato chip manufacturers. Read Press Release