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July 29, 2024

Transportation Decarbonization

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EPA Awards US School Districts Nearly $1B for Clean Buses
EPA on Wednesday announced it is distributing nearly $1 billion in grants to 389 school districts across the U.S. to buy cleaner buses, most of them electric.
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NJ BPU Approves $16M for 1st MHD EV Charger Program
New Jersey's BPU approved a $16.15 million allocation of funds from the RGGI to promote the installation of fast chargers for medium- and heavy-duty EVs.
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Overheard at RFF Net Zero Economy Summit
Decarbonizing the hardest-to-decarbonize industries will likely entail learning lessons from past failures, according to panelists at the RFF summit.
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CARB Looks to Refine Clean Bus Rules Amid Ridership Decline
California transit agencies are enthusiastically adopting zero-emission buses, but regulators are worried that ridership downturns will stall ZEB progress.
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DOE Awards $2.8 Billion to ‘Supercharge’ Battery Production
DOE announced the first 20 projects funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to expand U.S. manufacturing of batteries and components for EVs and the grid.
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NC Replaces ‘Dirtiest Diesel Buses’ with Electric and More Diesel
North Carolina is using $30.1 million from its share of the Volkswagen settlement to replace “some of the dirtiest diesel buses in the state.”
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NJ Bill Would Require Pension Divestment from Fossil Fuel Companies
New Jersey pension funds would be forced to divest from the largest 200 publicly traded fossil fuel companies under a controversial new bill.
Air Products
Air Products Plans $500M Hydrogen Plant in NY
Air Products plans to spend about $500 million to build a plant in New York that would produce 35 metric tons of liquid hydrogen a day for use as vehicle fuel.
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EPA Doubles IIJA Funding for Electric School Buses
EPA announced it's nearly doubling the funds available from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act for the Clean School Bus Program in 2022 to $965 million.
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West Coast Leaders Pledge Closer Cooperation on Climate Measures
Leaders from the three West Coast states and the Canadian province of British Columbia signed an agreement pledging to cooperate on climate change measures.

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