The little yellow school bus may be a hazard to children's health. Buses that burn diesel fuel release harmful particles into the air. Children on or around those buses throughout the school year are ...

Lesa Buttillo, the Bethlehem Area School District’s most-tenured school bus driver, remembers the old five-speed manual transmissions she started out on in 2003 and drove for nine and a half years ...

Heavy diesel vehicles are the major culprits behind the vehicle exhaust problem that threatens federal funding for new road and transit projects in the Washington area, regional planners told public ...

Atmospheric scientists used laser technology while riding in traffic behind New York City transit buses to find out exactly how much and what type of pollution different types of buses emit in their ...

Polluted air could be dragging down test scores for kids, according to a recent study of students in North Carolina. Yale researchers looked at standardized test scores and pollution exposure for ...

When Southern California’s biggest transit agency adopted plans six years ago to make its entire fleet of buses pollution-free by 2030, it was a big step forward for local action on climate and air ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Most states aren't doing enough to protect children from the diesel exhaust many of them inhale while riding or waiting for school buses, an environmental advocacy group said in a ...

Yellow school buses operated by Duluth's Voyageur Bus lines are a little greener this school year, thanks to an effort to cut diesel pollution. Voyageur had 31 buses made "green" by the installation ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The wheels on this bus do indeed go round and round. Its wipers swish. And its horn ...

Community groups have been fighting diesel fuel emissions for years. Finally, in late January, four bus companies representing 60 percent of the yellow school buses that are contracted by the ...

This story was originally published by Grist. The wheels on this bus do indeed go round and round. Its wipers swish. And its horn beeps. Hidden in its innards, though, is something special — a motor ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a story Dec. 20 about the dismissal of a trucking association’s lawsuit against new California emission rules, The Associated Press misidentified the Natural Resources Defense ...