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Teachers play a predominant role in imparting knowledge and sensitizing the students and society about the environment. They help to tackle the various environmental issues. Environmental problems have increased tremendously because environment is being abused beyond its capacity by human beings. Issues related to environmental problems have become a major concern for the international community particularly for educational policy makers and curriculum developers. Environmental Education is a powerful sensitization tool for the conservation of Environment, its biodiversity and the sustainable use of natural resources. Teachers are the potential change agents and are capable of generating a workforce of enlightened, skilled and motivated learners using formal and non-formal channels of education. The teacher can spare some amount of time for their routine teaching work and get them engaged especially in the teaching-learning process related inspiring pro-social values based activities through teaching. In this paper the author discus about the role of education to reducing environmental pollution among the school students.