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Brett Marsh

US offers $1B to electrify schoolbuses

Diverse group of happy children getting on school bus (Getty Images/FatCamera)

Less than 1 percent of the nation's roughly 500,000 school buses are electric or run on low-emission fuels. That's about to change. 

Nearly 400 school districts across the United States, including in several Indigenous tribal lands, as well as in Puerto Rico and American Samoa, will receive around $1 billion to purchase new, mostly electric school buses as part of a Biden Administration grant program.

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