EPA Requests Applications To Reduce Diesel Emissions From School Buses

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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the availability of approximately $7 million in rebates to public school bus fleet owners to help them replace or retrofit older school buses. Upgrading buses with older engines reduces diesel emissions and improves air quality.

“Modernizing school bus fleets across the country with retrofits, replacements, and idle reduction practices helps reduce children’s exposure to air toxics,” said Janet McCabe, acting assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation. “With the amount of time kids spend on buses, we need to protect them from the harm older diesel engines can cause.”

EPA standards for new diesel engines make them more than 90 percent cleaner than older ones, but many older diesel engines still in operation predate these standards. Older diesel engines emit large quantities of pollutants such as particulate matter (PM) and nitrogen oxides (NOx), which have been linked to serious health problems such as aggravated asthma and lung damage.

EPA will accept applications from September 29 to November 1, 2016.

This is the fourth rebate program to fund cleaner school buses offered under the Diesel Emission Reduction Act (DERA) reauthorization. Nearly 25,000 buses across the country have already been made cleaner as a result of DERA funding.

To learn more about the rebate program, applicant eligibility, selection process and informational webinar dates, visit www.epa.gov/cleandiesel/clean-diesel-rebates.

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  1. Keeping kids and other people save from dangerous air pollution is what USEPA is all about. Those that would want to destroy the USEPA need to think twice about doing that. That is not want the people want. We want a USEPA that helps us keep our air, water and land clean so that we don’t have excessive cases of cancer and heart disease. And we here in the Ohio River Valley have way too much cancer and heart disease to contend with right now. We need to make the air cleaner not dirtier. When you go to the polls remember who’s helping the USEPA do their job and who’s trying to kill the USEPA. Remember that when those news engines have to be made and installed on these busses to protect our kids it’s giving a diesel mechanics, engineer and other people jobs.

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