Environmental Law Foundation, Our Children’s Earth and Communities for a Better Environment, three Bay Area environmental organizations, and Laidlaw Transit, Inc. agreed to a settlement of a lawsuit, under which Laidlaw will provide California’s school children with newer and cleaner buses.

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]]> http://www.envirolaw.org/infocenter/?feed=rss2&p=69 http://www.envirolaw.org/infocenter/?p=64 http://www.envirolaw.org/infocenter/?p=64#comments Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:56:55 +0000 admin http://www.envirolaw.org/infocenter/?p=64 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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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)