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Clean School Buses in the Buffalo NY Region
May 6, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT
Webinar on zoom. Panel organized by New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund & Sierra Club (May is Asthma Awareness Month!)
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Event Speakers:
Assemblymember Karen McMahon, NY Assembly District 146
Senator Sean M. Ryan, NY Senate District 60 Senator Timothy M. Kennedy, NY Senate District 63 Caroline Hahn, NYLCVEF
Ben Mandel, CALSTART
Jonathan Meyers M.A., Buffalo State College
Sara Schultz, Sierra Club
Dr. Sarah Ventre, Clinical Assistant Professor, SUNY Buffalo, UBMD Pediatrics
The State Department of Environmental Conservation is committed to allocating 40% of the Volkswagen settlement money towards cleaning up buses and President Biden has proposed a $20 billion federal investment for electric school buses. The time is now for communities like Buffalo that experience some of the highest asthma rates in the state to take the lead in transitioning to electric school buses.