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"WASHINGTON (AP) — Responding to “overwhelming demand,” the Environmental
Protection Agency is nearly doubling the money available to states to buy
electric models of the familiar yellow school buses that millions of children
ride every school day.
The EPA made $500 million available for clean buses in May, but is increasing
that to $965 million for districts across the country. An additional $1 billion
is expected to be available in the budget year that begins Saturday.
In the current year, the agency said it has received about 2,000 applications
requesting nearly $4 billion for more than 12,000 buses, mostly electric.
“America’s school districts delivered this message loud and clear: We must
replace older, dirty diesel school buses,″ EPA Administrator Michael Regan said
in a statement Thursday. “Together, we can reduce climate pollution, improve
air quality and reduce the risk of health impacts like asthma for as many as 25
million children who ride the bus every day.”
Only about 1% of the nation’s 480,000 school buses were electric as of last
year, but the push to abandon diesel buses has gained momentum in recent years.
Money for the new purchases is available under the agency’s Clean School Bus
Program, which includes $5 billion from the bipartisan infrastructure law
President Joe Biden signed last year."
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Future Crunch Oct 7, 2022:
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