EPA Highlights ‘Transformative’ Funds For Zero-Emission School Buses

An EPA official is highlighting $5 billion in the new infrastructure law for the agency to subsidize zero-emission and other “clean” school buses as a “transformative” opportunity to improve public health and advance low-carbon technology as regulators eye tougher greenhouse gas and air standards for the heavy truck sector. The agency is suggesting the infrastructure law’s funding could work in tandem with, and help support, these planned regulatory efforts, in line with the Biden administration’s whole-of-government efforts to adopt incentives...