MDEQ awards $354,700 to help districts purchase environmentally friendly school buses Yellow school bus (Source: WALB) By Anthony Warren | April 21, 2021 at 2:45 PM CDT - Updated April 22 at 7:38 AM
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Districts across the state will soon be able to purchase cleaner-burning school buses, thanks to a grant from the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality.
MDEQ recently announced that it had awarded $354,700 to 15 school districts to apply to the purchase of new school buses with “more stringent pollution controls.”
“Not only will the students benefit from a cleaner school bus, but the environment will as well,” said Chris Wells, MDEQ Executive Director.