- The White House on Wednesday unveiled nearly $900 million in awards to 530 school districts to replace thousands of aging, gas-fueled school buses with cleaner, mainly electric models.
The funding is the third tranche of $5 billion that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will hand out over five years through a clean school bus program created by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in 2021.The EPA rebates will support the purchase of 3,400 school buses, 92% of them electric, the White House said. School districts in low income, tribal and rural communities will receive about 67% of the funds.
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