Dallas, Houston public schools aiming to retrofit or replace over 1,000 buses, many to switch to ULSD

Diesel Fuel News, Oct 28, 2002

Texas Gov. Rick Perry and U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman launched the "Adopt-A-Bus" program, aiming to slash diesel exhaust emissions from school buses. Depending upon availability of Texas Emissions Reduction Program (TERP) state funds, as well as federal Congestion Mitigation Air Quality (CMAQ) funds, ULSD would be supplied to some 630 Houston school buses being retrofitted with diesel particulate filters (DPFs) next year.

A similar clean-up program would target 500 old Dallas-Ft. Worth school buses. "Adopt-A-Bus" encourages local corporate sponsors to help pay for retrofit or replacement of old, dirty buses with new, cleaner buses running either on ULSD, compressed natural gas (CNG), LP-Gas, diesel-water emulsions and biodiesel.