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EPA's Healthy School Environments. This site serves as a gateway to EPA's on-line resources to help facility managers, school administrators, architects, design engineers, school nurses, parents, teachers and staff address environmental health issues in schools.

NOTE: The links below are to non-EPA Web sites.

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State Programs
Canadian Efforts
National School Transportation Organizations
Scientific & Environmental/Health Organizations
Associations

Canadian Efforts

• New Brunswick Lung Association
• Healthy School Program - School Bus Idling
• Health School Program - Parental Vehicle Idling
  
  
• Earth Day Canada - Eco-Kids Online Anti-Idling Campaign (Winter 2003)
  
  
• Greenest City No Idling at School
  
  
• City of Mississauga - Remember the Rule? No Idling at School!
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National School Transportation Organizations

• National School Transportation Association

• National Association for Pupil Transportion
  
  
• National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services
  
  
• schoolbusfleet.com
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Scientific & Environmental/Health Organizations

• American Lung Association of Texas: Cleaner Alternatives to Diesel-Powered School Buses
  
  
• Environment and Human Health, Inc. - Diesel
  
  
• GreenWorks - Health Effects of Diesel Exhaust
  
  
• New England Asthma Regional Council Connecticut, Maine, and New Hampshire have signed anti-idling agreements with their School Transportation Associations and developed some creative outreach materials to educate and involve drivers and school officials. Copies of these agreements and outreach materials are available here.

• Natural Resources Defense Council
• What Parents Need to Know About Diesel School Buses
  
• No Breathing in the Aisles: Diesel Exhaust inside School Buses
  
  
• Sierra Club Northstar Chapter's Student Zone: School Bus Emissions

• Union of Concerned Scientists,
  
  
• Clean School Buses, Healthy Kids
  
  
• cleanschoolbus.org
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Associations

• Diesel Technology Forum
  
  
• National Biodiesel Board - Potential Biodiesel Use in the Nation's School Bus Fleet (535K PDF)
  
  
• World Energy – Biodiesel in School Buses
  
  
• NGV.org - Natural Gas Vehicle Forum
  
  
• Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition
  
  
• Manufacturers of Emission Controls Association
  
  
• SafeChild.net (a project of the Consumer Federation of America Foundation)
  
  
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