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Leonardo Academy Helps Midwest Schoolchildren Breathe Clean Air |
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Press Release |
Leonardo Academy is proud to assist in reducing this health hazard to schoolchildren and others who ride buses for the following companies:
The greatest impact of diesel emissions are on the approximately 4.5 million who are under 18 years of age and the 1.7 million who are over 65 years of age. The inhalation of diesel emissions can trigger adverse health problems, including chest pain, coughing, throat irritation and congestion and can worsen bronchitis, emphysema and asthma. Within Illinois and Wisconsin, nearly 1 million children ride over 17,000 school buses, vast majorities of which are powered by diesel fuel with high amounts of exhaust emissions. While breathing diesel exhaust has health implications for everyone, children are much more susceptible to this pollution than healthy adults because they breathe more air relative to their body weight and their respiratory systems are still developing. The time that individual students spend on buses varies between 20 minutes and several hours per day. For one child, a half-hour ride to school and a half-hour ride home each day amounts to 180 hours per school year spent on the bus. Children in Illinois and Wisconsin spend 40 million hours on buses each year. Michael Arny, President of Leonardo Academy, said, “Part of Leonardo Academy’s goal in advocating the EPA’s National Clean Diesel Campaign is to improve air quality for our most vulnerable populations. Other than family cars, school buses are the form of transportation that children use most often. By helping school bus companies reduce the emissions from their buses, we are helping our children achieve healthier futures while helping the bus companies thrive.” About the EPA’s National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program On February 17, 2009, President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law No. 111-05) (Recovery Act), which provided additional funding for DERA. With this additional funding, EPA has awarded additional DERA grants each year, further eliminating diesel emissions in the Midwest and across the country. Specific information on these funded projects can be found at: www.epa.gov/otaq/diesel/projects.htm. |