Clean Buses for Healthy Niños
October 28, 2025
The Clean Buses for Healthy Niños (CBHN) campaign is a national initiative of Chispa, a program of the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) with a mission to ensure Latine and people of color have a strong voice in the decisions and policies that impact their communities and environment.
Chispa provides partial funding for the New York ESB Campaign and works collaboratively with NYLCV and NYLCVEF staff on campaign strategy, in addition to leading the National Alliance for Electric School Bus coalition to promote multi-state learning across climate and environmental justice leaders.
This campaign addresses the public health and climate crisis propelled by air pollution from dirty diesel buses and highlights the disproportionate burden of this pollution on the developing lungs of young people and within communities of color where many of the diesel bus depots are located.
In 2021, when New York City committed to a full transition to electric school buses by 2035 – with purchases limited to electric models starting in 2027 – and when New York State followed suit in 2022, environmental and public health advocates celebrated it as a major win.
Looking forward, campaign partners are laser focused on a handful of short-term and mid-term implementation goals to ensure that resources for the ESB transition are clear and widely accessible:
- Amplifying and accelerating community awareness and engagement to motivate school districts to “Vote Yes” on the ESB funding opportunities. This includes prioritizing geographic reach and especially in areas where the campaign is experiencing more resistance.
- Supporting district capacity to build an ESB transition plan and submit time-bound applications for funding. Ensuring that every school is connected with NYSERDA is critical to ensure timely planning.to build the plans.
- Pushing back against misinformation and false narratives in a critical moment when school districts design and vote on annual budgets and the next legislative session begins.
- Continuing to pursue opportunities for technology solutions and cross-sector collaborations to ensure that implementation moves forwards.
- Maintaining the current dates of implementation that are currently in the law and/or reducing the length of any delays to the transition timeline.
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Do you or your organization want to join our coalition?Contact us today: Lea Giddins at lgiddins@nylcv.org . |
Thank you to our valued partners:
Special thanks to the New York Community Trust for its generous support of this program.
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