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Switching to - Electric School Buses - It’s good for our children’s health

10 May 2022

The impetus behind the alternative fuels assessment was to study the climate impacts of the different fuel Children (15 and under) are among the most types. [...] What is missing, however, is consideration of vulnerable to these air pollutants as their lungs are still how the fuel types contribute to air pollution and how developing, they have a higher respiration rate, and it affects the health of children riding the bus. [...] Switching to electric of children, bus drivers and the environment, school buses that have no tail pipe exhaust reduces the Conservation Council of New Brunswick children’s exposure to harmful air pollutants. [...] The chronic occupational exposure to is harmful to human health and the environment. [...] individuals, likewise, are a group at risk to negative A meta-analysis on the prevalence of child asthma health effects from exposure to PM2.5, particularly in relation to chronic exposure to NO2 levels found cardiovascular disease.
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