Environmental Initiative’s Project Green Fleet has grown from a small pilot-scale project to a robust, statewide effort to reduce diesel emissions. Environmental Initiative plans to install pollution control equipment on all eligible school buses in Minnesota, an estimated 4,000 school buses.

Project Green Fleet – Making an Impact

• Installed pollution control equipment on over 3,000 school buses allowing 300,000 children to breath easier 
• Retrofitted, repowered or upgraded more than 400 heavy-duty diesel engines including trucks, transit buses, trains and construction equipment
• Reduced particulate matter (PM) emissions by over 20 tons, the equivalent of removing 350,000 cars from the road annually
• Reduced hydrocarbon (HC) emissions by over 150 tons
• Reduced carbon monoxide (CO) emissions by over 250 tons
• Implemented educational programs about emission and idle reduction efforts
• Facilitates Clean Air Minnesota Steering Committee, a collaborative effort to keep Minnesota’s air clean