EESI Recognizes Colorado Springs School
Districts 11 and 20
September 22, 2005
The Environmental and Energy Study Institute in
Washington D.C. recognized the efforts of Colorado Springs School
Districts 11 and 20 to reduce emissions from their school bus
fleets. The school districts are using a combination of diesel
oxidation catalysts, particulate matter filters and biodiesel.
They have also taken measures to reduce the time the
buses spend idling, which consumes fuel unnecessarily. The two
school districts are using a unique approach –a partnership for
buses – that allows them to leverage scarce resources.
The net result is to reduce the exposure of children
to harmful diesel exhaust. According to the American Public
Transportation Association, conventional diesel engines power nearly
86% of this country’s 450,000 school buses nationwide.
EESI is a non-profit organization established in 1984
by a bipartisan group of members of Congress to provide timely
information on energy and environmental policy issues to
policymakers. For more information about EESI’s Clean Bus Program,
see its September 22 press release.
http://www.eesi.org/programs/cleanbus/leadership/index.htm |
