FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 6, 2025
Contact: Carolina Chacon | carolina@chaconconsulting.com | 702-810-7155
This Asthma Awareness Month, Parents and Students Across the Country Urge Congress to Protect Clean School Bus Funds
Organizations Across 17 States Delivering 3,000+ Postcards from Constituents
NATIONWIDE — Starting today, World Asthma Day, over 3,000 postcards from constituents will be delivered to 31 Congressional offices as part of a national day of action for electric school buses.
Across 17 states, parents, students and voters are delivering more than 1,100 postcards with handwritten notes and 2,000 digital postcards with a clear message: Congress must protect clean school bus funding. A handful of deliveries are taking place in the next two weeks, throughout Asthma Awareness Month.
As part of the budget reconciliation package, Congress could cut at least $2.2 billion in funding as well as tax credits for clean school buses and their charging stations. Through the Clean School Bus Program and the Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles Program, EPA has awarded $3.2 billion to date for over 10,000 clean school buses at more than 1,200 school districts in every U.S. state and most territories.
Cutting these programs would mean millions of U.S. children riding dirtier, old diesel buses to school, increasing their likelihood of developing asthma and other heart and lung illnesses. As asthma rates climb, it’s more important than ever to clean up the air children breathe by reducing their exposure to diesel pollution at key developmental ages.
Participating organizations and their Congressional targets include:
| STATE | ORGANIZATIONS | OFFICES |
| Michigan | It’s Electric Moms Clean Air Force | Sen. Peters (D)Rep. Dingell (D)Sen. Slotkin (D) |
| Virginia | Mothers Out Front | Sen. Warner (D)Rep. Connelly (D) |
| Florida | Moms Clean Air ForceSouthern Alliance for Clean Energy | Sen. Scott (R) |
| New York | Mothers Out FrontNYLCV | Sen. Schumer (D)Sen. Gillibrand (D)Rep. Lawler (R)Rep. Latimer (D)Rep. Ryan (D) |
| Arizona | Chispa ArizonaMoms Clean Air Force | Rep. Ciscomani (R)Sen. Gallego (D) |
| Georgia | Southern Alliance for Clean EnergyMoms Clean Air Force | Sen. Ossoff (D) |
| Minnesota | MN350 | Sen. Smith (D) |
| Colorado | Moms Clean Air Force | Sen. Hickenlooper (D) |
| Tennessee | Sierra Club TN | Rep. Burchet (R)Rep. Harshbarger (R) |
| Maryland | Chispa Maryland | Sen. Alsobrooks (D)Sen. Van Hollen (D)Rep. Raskin (D)Rep. Ivy (D)Rep. Hoyer (D) |
| Nevada | Chispa NevadaMoms Clean Air Force | Sen. Cortez Masto (D)Sen. Rosen (D)Rep. Amodei (R) |
| New Mexico | Moms Clean Air Force | Sen. Heinrich (D) |
| North Carolina | Moms Clean Air Force | Sen. Tillis (R) |
| Ohio | Moms Clean Air Force | Rep. Carey (R) |
| Pennsylvania | Moms Clean Air Force | Sen. Fetterman (D) |
| West Virginia | Moms Clean Air Force | Sen. Capito (R) |
| Wisconsin | Moms Clean Air Force | Sen. Baldwin (D) |
The national day of action was organized by the Alliance for Electric School Buses, a coalition convened by Chispa of more than two dozen not-for-profit organizations committed to helping communities invest in zero-emission school buses that will protect children and communities from diesel pollution.
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About the Alliance for Electric School Buses: We are a diverse partnership of not-for-profit organizations committed to fully transition the U.S. school bus fleet to electric models that will clean up the air 25 million children breathe. Our coalition represents environmental, equity, community, and labor groups who work at the local, state and federal levels.