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Maine's Clean School Bus Project Workshops at MAPT Conference - July 2004

Asthma and Diesel Exhaust in NE

Ellen Tohn, Asthma Research Council Representative


"Asthma is now the #1 cause of missed school days in America!"

Check out this 1.5 minute video with highlights from Ellen Tohn's presentation at the Maine Association of Pupil Transportation Conference, in July 2004. Her presentation describes the health risks from diesel exhaust exposure.

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A full 10 minute version of Ellen Tohn's presentation is available on cd by contacting Lynne Cayting. Click on her name to send an email request for the MAPT Presentation 2004 cd. Be sure to include your post office mailing address in the email.

Strategies for keeping students safer by not idling school buses in the school yard.

School Transportation Director, Lennie Goff

"This is for the health of the children!"

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A full 5 minute version of Lennie Goff's presentation is available on cd by contacting Lynne Cayting. Click on her name here to send an email request for the MAPT Presentation 2004 cd. Be sure to include your post office mailing address in the email.

 

Mechanic's Workshop Training Video

This video contains presentations by representatives of the Donaldson Corporation that manufactures DOCs and Spiracle Crank Case Filters and by Clean Diesel Technologies, Inc. representatives. Both companies are leaders in making this diesel emissions retrofit technology available to schools. Attendees at the workshop included school bus mechanics whose school districts were participating in Maine's Clean School Bus Retrofit project.

To obtain a free 40 minute video tape of a DOC (diesel oxidation catalyst muffler) installation demostration and a spiracle crank case filter installation demonstration: click here to send an email to Lynne A. Cayting. Be sure to include your post office mailing address in the email.

 

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