Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here. As Atlanta students head back to school in the coming days, a fraction of them will be taking electric buses.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Most states aren't doing enough to protect children from the diesel exhaust many of them inhale while riding or waiting for school buses, an environmental advocacy group said in a ...

Do your kids have a clean ride to school? Here’s how to get one — on an electric school bus. As 12,000 kids in Athens, Georgia, returned to school recently, a lucky few rode in on two shiny new ...

The Union of Concerned Scientists last month produced a nationwide School Bus Pollution Report Card that gave the state of Virginia a C for exhaust pollution. No state received an A in the study. But ...

SACRAMENTO — Going to school in the familiar yellow school buses may be exposing children to dangerous doses of exhaust, according to a recent government study. A study released Wednesday by the ...

CHATHAM, Ill. (AP) -- The school buses that carry 1 million Illinois children every day also belch out pollution that harms the environment and threatens people's health -- a problem the state hopes ...