EPA Makes Available More Clean School Bus Funds Amid GOP Concern

The Biden EPA is making available nearly $1 billion in additional funds to school districts to help purchase low-emissions school buses, even as Republicans express complaints about risks for waste in the infrastructure law program and officials’ heavy emphasis on electric vehicles (EVs) over other types of “clean” buses. EPA previously awarded $3 billion from the Clean School Bus program, and this fourth round of awards would mean that the agency will have spent roughly 80 percent of the funding...