Electric School Bus Fleet Will Quadruple with $1 Billion in Funding

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : The funding comes from $5 billion that EPA received in the infrastructure bill.
56% : EPA intends to get its funds to school districts by April, said Karl Simon, the director of EPA's transportation and climate division, in the call with reporters.
56% : The ranks of e-buses promises to swell in the coming years, as Wednesday's announcement comprises only one-fifth of the money EPA has available for electric or low-carbon school buses.
53% : EPA said 20 percent of the awards are going to rural or low-income communities or tribes, which got preferential scoring under the rules of the law.
50% : Many of the applications school districts sent to EPA were in fact submitted by companies that make electric buses.

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