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Wednesday, August 31st, 2022

Biden administration nearly doubling number of zero-emission buses with infrastructure funds

Author:     Rachel Frazin
Source:     The Hill
Publication Date:     08/16/22 2:19 PM ET
 Link: Biden administration nearly doubling number of zero-emission buses with infrastructure funds
Stephan:   Twenty-seven percent of America's greenhouse gas emissions come from internal combustion transportation, and Biden is making a serious attempt to reduce that, as this article describes. So good news.
An AC Transit zero emissions bus moves on the bus deck at the Transbay transit center in San Francisco, Calif. Credit: Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle / AP

The Biden administration said on Tuesday that it is nearly doubling the number of zero-emission buses on the road through funding from the bipartisan infrastructure law. 

The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced $1.66 billion in grants to transit agencies, territories and states that will facilitate the purchase of 1,800 new buses. Of those, 1,100 will be zero-emission vehicles and will nearly double the number of zero-emission buses on the roads, the FTA said in a press release. 

“With today’s awards, we’re helping communities across America – in cities, suburbs, and rural areas alike – purchase more than 1,800 new buses, and most of them are zero-emission,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a written statement. 

“Funded through President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, this announcement means more good jobs for people across the country, cleaner air in our communities, and more affordable and reliable options to help people get to where they need to go,” Buttigieg […]

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