School districts receive $900M from EPA to fund electric school buses

Published on May 29, 2024

The Biden administration has issued the next round of funding aimed at cleaning up the country’s school bus fleet. On Wednesday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded nearly $900 million in rebates to help more than 500 school districts buy about 3,400 clean school buses — 92 percent of them electric. …

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