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EPA announces $1B in grants for electric school buses and heavy-duty vehicles

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Photo: Highland Fleets Today, the US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) announced nearly $1 billion in grants to replace gas heavy-duty vehicles and school buses with electric vehicles. The grant program is funded through the Inflation Reduction Act under President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda. “In Get started here. –

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PA Governor Wolf announces $8.5M from Volkswagen Settlement to reduce transportation pollution

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Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced that 34 cleaner energy transportation projects will receive $8,489,844 in Driving PA Forward grants and rebates. In this second set of awards, the following recipients will receive grants and rebates: Statewide. million settlement with Volkswagen. Multi-county. Allegheny County.

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California ARB awarding $1.6 million to LA for low-income EV carsharing pilot program

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The grant will fulfill a key mandate of SB 1275, the Charge Ahead California Initiative, enacted last year to make clean transportation more widely available, particularly in low and moderate-income neighborhoods. Following a competitive proposal process, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) has offered $1.6 Earlier post.).

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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Geographical distribution of Clean Cities Recovery Act awards. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 25 cost-share projects under the Clean Cities program that will be funded with nearly $300 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Clean Energy Coalition’s CEC Michigan Green Fleets Initiative.

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California ARB awards $9.5M to Porterville to deploy 10 GreenPower electric buses and charging infrastructure

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The grant award is part of California Climate Investments, a statewide program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while providing clean-air benefits to California neighborhoods, with an emphasis on disadvantaged communities. GreenPower recently completed the acquisition of 9.3

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Why Electric Buses Are the Healthy School Choice

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NIEHS goes on to say that air pollution is also linked to cancers, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and other disorders. NIEHS goes on to say that air pollution is also linked to cancers, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and other disorders. The CSB has two methods of funding: Rebates and Grants.

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Swaying toward EV mobility

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We partner with real estate developers, cities, and nonprofits to utilize government clean energy incentives, grants, and other sources of funding,” Peters explained. Attacking the problem The idea for Sway Mobility came in 2017, when Peters was working in sustainability with different neighborhoods in Cleveland. “I