Florida's Miami-Dade school district to soon have 100 electric buses on the road
Nearly $20 million from the Environmental Protection Agency will cover the costs.
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Nearly $20 million from the Environmental Protection Agency will cover the costs.
By 2026, one in every ten school buses in Miami-Dade will be electric.
The state transportation department left $320 million on the table, saying it wouldn’t support the “continued politicization of our roadways.”
It’s the only state in the nation to decline federal aid for climate-related transportation improvements.
Congress in 2021 provided $6.4 billion to states to curb tailpipe emissions and reduce the effects of climate change. Florida was set to receive $320 million, the third most of any state. The state Department of Transportation began drafting a plan to add trucker parking at rest stops, which staff said could fix the statewide shortage that kept drivers on the road longer, polluting more, as ...