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Thousands of students are heading back to school on electric buses this year, sparing them from dirty diesel fumes

August 24, 2023
“School buses make lots of stops, and whenever the driver of a diesel bus puts their foot on the gas, you get that big cloud of black smoke. Same thing when all these buses are idling in front of schools and pumping out fumes. All of that goes away with electric,” says Art Wheaton, senior extension associate at the ILR Buffalo Co-Lab.