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Riding School Buses Exposes Children to Cancer-Causing Toxins, Groups Warn Lawsuit Filed |
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May 2,
2006
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CHILDREN
LAW-LITIGATION
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According to the article, two environmental justice groups, Our Children’s Earth Foundation and the Environmental Law Foundation, filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court on May 2, 2006 against Laidlaw Transit, Inc. (“Laidlaw”) under California’s Proposition 65. Specifically, the lawsuit alleged that Laidlaw exposed school children who rode its school buses “to cancer-causing diesel engine exhaust without a warning” in violation of Proposition 65 and sought a court order to “provide warnings about the diesel engine exhaust” by the start of the next school year. Public health officials consider diesel engine exhaust to be a carcinogenic toxic air contaminant, which can exacerbate asthma and other respiratory illnesses.
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