Little money to clean up polluting school buses

Ah, I remember the days of taking the bus to school when the driver pulled up in a "stinky" old bus because our regular bus was getting a tune-up.

An estimated 390,000 diesel school buses are on the road in the U.S., according to the EPA. Most newer buses were manufactured to meet stricter emissions guidelines and do not need filters. But about one-third of the nation’s diesel school-bus fleet, or more than 100,000 buses, were manufactured before 1990 and are big polluters, according to EPA.

If there's a more effective rally cry than "save the children," I've never heard it. If more news outlets start picking this up, I'm sure states will start seeing some money to put filters into the older buses. Check out the map in the article to see how your state fares on school bus emissions.