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https://www.mothersoutfront.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/ESB.jpg1500546It was Van Jones, the iconic environmental justice commentator, who once said: “It’s hard to learn when you can’t breathe.” But the reality is that on a typical day – pre-COVID — more than 25 million children ride to and from school on buses powered by dirty diesel fuel. Every school day, they face exposure to toxins well-documented to cause a frightening list of health issues: heart disease, lung disease, cancers, and especially, asthma, which causes more school absences than any other illness. Dirty diesel school buses have been called refineries on wheels. The soot and particulate matter that spews from them while students wait to board — and the tiny particulates that enter the bus through open windows as ...