Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here. As Atlanta students head back to school in the coming days, a fraction of them will be taking electric buses.

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 ...

WASHINGTON -- 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 report ...

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 ...

Do your kids have a clean ride to school? Here’s how to get one — on an electric school bus. As 12,000 kids in Athens, Georgia, returned to school recently, a lucky few rode in on two shiny new ...

SACRAMENTO — Going to school in the familiar yellow school buses may be exposing children to dangerous doses of exhaust, according to a recent government study. A study released Wednesday by the ...

CHATHAM, Ill. (AP) -- The school buses that carry 1 million Illinois children every day also belch out pollution that harms the environment and threatens people's health -- a problem the state hopes ...

When a massive explosion proved the death knell of a 150-year-old South Philadelphia oil refinery in 2019, nearby resident Mark Clincy chalked it up as a health victory for surrounding neighborhoods ...

I live across the street from Vigilante Stadium. Of course, there is much traffic during the school year at Helena Middle School. What concerns me is the buses parked on Idaho Ave and nearby streets ...

The Union of Concerned Scientists last month produced a nationwide School Bus Pollution Report Card that gave the state of Virginia a C for exhaust pollution. No state received an A in the study. But ...