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Indiana rode the bottom tier, with Lexington, Kentucky, at the road to driving down its diesel pollution by nearly 90
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the bottom. percent by 2030.
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State officials, mayors and county leaders are making
a difference. But, “Metros can’t go it alone in solving [so]
Landmark Law
vast a problem,” remarks Mark Muro, policy director of The
Higher Education Moves on Sustainability
Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program. The
federal government must play a far more constructive and
President Bush re-
supportive role.
cently signed into law
the Higher Education
Source: Brookings.edu
Sustainability Act,
which earmarks $50
End of the Road
million for at least 25
competitive grants to
Driving Down Dirty Diesel
universities aimed to
Step-by-step, attorney pilot breakthrough
Janea Scott and the sustainability curricula,
Environmental Defense programs and practices. It’s the first such federal program
Fund have won strict authorized in 18 years. It also directs the Department of
new pollution limits Education to convene a national summit on best practices
on diesel exhaust. In and opportunities for collaboration.
recent years, she was “Our young people know the stakes,” says Senator
often the lone environ- Patty Murray of Washington State, who helped sponsor the
mentalist, far out- bill. “They know that developing sustainable energy pro-
numbered by industry grams will affect their lives, their economic well-being and
representatives, on the Environmental Protection Agency’s the planet they are inheriting.”
diesel advisory board. Collectively, the new standards will Higher education is a natural incubator for solutions
annually prevent thousands of deaths and hospitalizations, that connect the dots in addressing the nation’s challenges
saving billion of dollars in public health expenditures that in energy, national security, sustainable economic develop-
far outweigh the cost of cleaning up the problem. ment, environmental protection and social justice. The new
“From trucks to bulldozers, trains and commercial grants will support college students in taking the reins of
ships, our nation is now making the transition to a bold the sustainability movement.
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