WCCO TV - Getting The Soot Out Of School Buses

WCCO TV story by Bill Hudson for Project Energy

Excerpt: Every motorist has seen it and many more have breathed it in. There’s no mistaking a diesel engine when you see that big puff of black soot as the vehicle accelerates.

Diesel-powered trucks and buses are 10 percent of the traffic, but they contribute about half of all air pollutants from vehicles.

That’s where “Project Green Fleet” fits in. It’s paying school districts and bus companies around the state to retrofit their buses.

The Clean Energy Resource Teams (CERTs) are partnering with the Minnesota Environmental Initiative’s Project Green Fleet to do something to reduce air pollutants from diesel-powered school buses. The project is designed specifically to improve the environmental standards of the state’s aging fleet of school buses.

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