Air Pollution Can Hurt Students' Grades, But Electric Buses Could Help

11 Mar 2024 | Abstracted from WRAL

"A recent Yale Study of 2.8 million North Carolina students shows air pollution can hurt athletic performance...researchers looked at standardized test scores and pollution exposure for every public school student in North Carolina over 17 years - from 2001 to 2018.

"Children have an increased respiratory rate...They breathe more per minute than adults do, so they're breathing in more pollution when there is high air pollution."

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