EPA Announces VEPCO Commitment of $1 Million to Reduce Diesel Emissions from Fairfax County School Buses
U.S. Newswire, June, 2003
WASHINGTON, June 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today, EPA Administrator Christie Whitman visited Annandale Terrace Elementary School in Fairfax County, Va., to announce Virginia Electric Power Company's (VEPCO) $1 million commitment to retrofit school buses. Whitman was joined by Rep. Tom Davis (R-11th); Pam Faggart, Environmental Director, VEPCO; Dave Paylor, Deputy Director, Virginia Department of Natural Resources; Sharon Bulova, Supervisor, Fairfax County Board of Supervisors; and Christina Dickens, Principal, Annandale Terrace Elementary School.
"Every day in America, 24 million children travel more than four billion miles each year safely to and from school on 440,000 school buses -- that's a lot of driving and a lot of air pollution," said EPA Administrator Christie Whitman....
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