04/24/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 04/25/2024 08:25
New national goal is announced with nearly $1 billion in grants from the Inflation Reduction Act for cities, states, and Tribes to electrify school buses, refuse trucks, and delivery trucks
Zoe Woodcraft, [email protected], (818) 606-7509
"The future is electric for how we move goods across this country. We're incredibly excited to see this commitment from the Biden Administration to modernize our freight sector with a whole-of-government approach to get to zero emissions," said Athena Motavvef, legislative representative at Earthjustice on the Right To Zero campaign. "It's time to lift the burdens of diesel pollution from communities living in the shadow of railyards, ports, mega-warehouses, and freeways with zero-emissions solutions."
(Hannah Rothstein for Earthjustice)
The announcement came alongside a nearly $1 billion Inflation Reduction Act funding opportunity through EPA for cities, states, and Tribes to electrify class 6 and 7 heavy duty vehicles (namely, school buses, refuse trucks, delivery trucks, and some port trucks), as well as $400 million from the Department of Transportation to reduce trucks emissions in port communities, and a $72 million investment from the Department of Energy in truck charging infrastructure.
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