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CLEANER SCHOOL BUS FUEL FOR CHICAGO AREA CHILDREN.

Many Chicago area school children will be breathing easier as they get on and off their school buses, thanks to a blended fuel that contains soybean oil.

Chicago School Transit is the first school bus service in the Chicago Metropolitan Area to use the soy-based biodiesel fuel, which reduces the hazardous exhaust emissions by 15-20 percent.

Studies have shown that children riding school buses are exposed to higher level of emissions than other children. Exhaust emissions inhaled on a consistent basis, from petroleum diesel fuel exhaust, have been linked to the causes of asthma ...