Times Leader Online - School District Switches Bus Fuel to Biiodiesel Blend By JARED NELSON / Times Leader Online Dec 3, 2005 A recent move by the Caldwell County school district has county school bus riders, and bus drivers, breathing easier. The school district recently switched the fuel for its fleet of buses from regular diesel fuel to a blend of diesel and biodiesel, a fuel derived from natural oils — in this case, soybeans — and school officials say the cleaner-burning biodiesel is already paying off..... See Full Story KIN 5 NEWS - Cantwell Pushing for Biofuel Research & Development By BERNARD CHOI / KING 5 News SEATTLE - Aaron Kahn is on a road only a small number of Seattle drivers have tried, using biodiesel fuels instead of traditional diesel. Kahn believes it's the path everyone will be on in the coming years. " We cannot continue to use gasoline at the levels that we do use it," he said. The problem is there's not much of a market for biodiesel fuel. Only one or two stations in Seattle offer it. And while biofuels get better mileage, they cost $1 more per gallon. Also, only vehicles that now burn diesel can burn biodiesel...... See Full Story SEATTLE TIMES - Alternative Fuel Backers Celebrate Biodiesel Plant By Sherry Grindeland/ Seattle Times John Plaza bypasses the gas station these days.When his pickup's gas gauge nears empty, he pumps biodiesel — made in his own plant — into his tank. Plaza expects to fill up hundreds of other vehicles when his processing plant, Seattle Biodiesel, officially opens sometime this spring. It will be the first wholesale biodiesel plant in King County..... See Full Story UC Berkeley News- More exhaust inhaled by kids inside school buses than by others in the area, says study BERKELEY – Children on school buses collectively inhale as much or more exhaust emitted from those buses as does the rest of the city's population, according to a new analysis by researchers at the University of California. The results highlight the problem of "self-pollution," or exhaust from the vehicle leaking into the cabin, particularly among older buses. This also is the first study to specifically look at how much exhaust is breathed in on school buses..... See Full Story