| While those yellow buses are the safest | | | | supporting the administrations full |
| way to get our kids to school each day, | | | | budget for School Bus and diesel |
| millions of Americas kids are still | | | | emissions reductions while restoring |
| riding aging school buses that emit | | | | funding for key state air quality |
| unhealthy diesel exhaust. There is no | | | | programs. State-by-State: |
| warning sign on the back of diesel | | | | What is your state grade? For details |
| school buses that the black smoke coming | | | | about these grades, read the Pollution |
| out of the tailpipe could be hazardous | | | | Report Card.STATE:SOOT POLLUTION |
| to childrens health - but there should | | | | GRADE:CLEANUP PROGRAM RANK:SMOG |
| be. Diesel fumes can cause or exacerbate | | | | POLLUTION RANK:These are the grads given |
| asthma, lung disease, and cancer, and | | | | to each state:Alabama-B/Alaska-B |
| have even been linked to premature | | | | Arizona-D /Arkansas-D /California-C |
| death."Major victory", the | | | | Colorado-D /Connecticut-B /Delaware-B |
| transportation bill passed in 2005 | | | | District of Columbia-B /Florida-C |
| included the creation of the National | | | | Georgia-C /Hawaii-D /Idaho-C /Illinois-C |
| Clean School Bus Grant Program. In his | | | | /Indiana-B /Iowa-C /Kansas-C /Kentucky-C |
| Fiscal Year 2007 budget request, the | | | | /Louisiana-D /Maine-B /Maryland B |
| president called for $50 million in | | | | Massachusetts B /Michagan C /Minnesota D |
| funding for grants to clean up school | | | | /Mississippi-C /Missouri-B /Montana-D |
| buses and other polluting diesel | | | | Nebraska-D /Nevada-B /New Hampshire-C |
| equipment. This represents marked | | | | New Jersey-B /New Mexico-C /New York-B |
| progress from the current, Ad Hoc School | | | | North Carolina-C/North Dakota-C /Ohio-C |
| Bus grant program that received only | | | | Oklahoma-D /Oregon-C /Pennsylvania-B |
| $7.5 million. Unfortunately, the | | | | Rhode Island-C /South Carolina-D /South |
| president asked for $35 million in cuts | | | | Dakota-D /Tennessee-B |
| to state air programs that help | | | | Texas-C /Utah-D /Vermont-C /Virginia-C |
| implementing key Diesel cleanup | | | | Washington-D /West Virginia-C |
| programs. Please contact your senators | | | | Wisconsin-C /Wyoming-B . |
| and ask them to sign the letters | | | | |