Research Areas
Research Areas
Healthy Schools
12 Steps to A Healthier School
12 Steps to A Healthy School
Download Full Text of BrochureChildren spend an enormous amount of their waking hours in the school environment. Children are a vulnerable population due to their small size and unique physiology, and therefore it is important that schools be as environmentally safe as possible. Many of the areas of concern below do not actually cost money to implement, but are simply new ways to look at different situations.
EHHI's project report on "12 Steps to a Healthier School"
EHHI visited 169 CT municipalities and 69 CT local health departments and superintendents of schools.
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Healthy Schools
Children’s Exposure
to Diesel Exhaust
on School Buses
Children's Exposures to Diesel Exhaust on School Buses
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Recommendations
Press Release
Resulting Legislation: Public Act No. 02-56: An Act Concerning the Idling of School Buses
News and Information about School Bus Diesel Exhaust
Diesel Exhaust from School Buses
Most U.S. school buses are powered by diesel fuel. Diesel exhaust is comprised of
very fine particles of carbon and a mixture of toxic gases. Federal agencies have
classified diesel exhaust as a probable human carcinogen. Benzene, an important
component of the fuel and exhaust, is designated to be a known human carcinogen.
This study concludes that the laws intended to control air pollution in the U.S. and
Connecticut must be strengthened to protect the health of children.