EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin seems to have a vendetta against clean, reliable transportation for our children. His agency has issued a Request for Information (RFI) with an eye to increasing the number of fossil fuel-powered buses funded by the Clean School Bus Program.
That’s right: They are trying to use a program created to fund clean electric transportation to instead bring more tailpipe pollution into our communities. Does that make any sense to you?
Tell EPA: Protect Children’s Health. Fund Clean School Buses.
Our children deserve to ride on buses that help protect their lungs and a healthy climate—not ones that will go on to pollute our air for decades. We can’t let EPA continue making long-term commitments to the tailpipe pollution harming our children’s health and the fossil fuels warming our planet.
EPA’s mission is to protect human health and the environment. Children in my neighborhood are already exposed to local air pollution from highways and a nearby trash incinerator. They are not alone in living near multiple pollution sources. Every new electric school bus on the road will go a long way toward making the air cleaner and safer for all families.
Administrator Zeldin needs to know that we won’t sit quietly while he shifts the Clean School Bus Program away from funding zero-emissions electric buses. Will you join me in demanding EPA honor their mission and give up on using the program to fund more fossil fuel buses?
Make your voice heard for our children today. They deserve a tailpipe-pollution-free ride to school.
Tell EPA: Protect Children’s Health. Fund Clean School Buses.