Environmental Health

• The burden of disease from environmental risk and ambient air pollution associated with diesel-fuel vehicles, including school buses, is significant, but it is also preventable with the right measures.

• Elevated levels of lead result in decreased growth in both plants and animals. Exposure also affects a child's behavior and neurological (brain) development ...

• Historically, evidence-based research supports the link between respiratory diseases and air pollution (lead and diesel-fueled air); more recently, science has associated numerous neuro-divergent disorders with high levels of harmful air particulates.

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