Clean Bus Program awards almost $1 billion for clean buses across the U.S., including in Baltimore

The Montgomery County School District added 61 new electric buses to its fleet on Monday, part of a planned 326 buses to be added by 2024. Although Montgomery now has the largest operating electric fleet in the nation, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that 391 school districts across the U.S will soon receive nearly $1 billion combined for new clean school buses. The awards were part of the Clean School Bus Program, included in President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill. The program will award roughly $5 billion to school districts for zero- and low-emission buses over the next five years. The EPA report said that 95% of these buses will be electric. This round of awards received roughly 2,000 applications from school districts around the country. The first round of awards gave out $913 million, which will cover an estimated 2,468 buses.