BUSES PURCHASE PROSPECTS * UK & USA - New £30 million fund for Green Buses
London,UK -The Green Car Website -1 July 2009: -- England’s bus fleet will be helped to go green thanks to a new £30 million fund to encourage the purchase of low carbon buses... The fund is part of the Department for Transport’s wider strategy to encourage a radical shift to low carbon transport and improve air quality in our cities... Bus operators and councils will be able to bid for the money which they can then use towards the additional up front cost of buying low carbon buses... As more low carbon buses are produced and sold, costs will reduce. This will encourage bus technology and will stimulate the market for low carbon buses, an industry in which the UK is a world leader... (Picture from greenbang: Scania ethanol buses) * USA - School district to buy 10 new buses
Sioux Falls,SD,USA -The Argus Leader, by STEVE YOUNG -July 2, 2009: -- Some of Sioux Falls' yellow school buses are turning green thanks to federal stimulus dollars... The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $500,000 to the Sioux Falls School District to help buy 10 new buses with clean diesel technology and to install 20 fuel-operated heaters... The goal is to reduce exposure to toxic emissions from diesel exhaust, said Rebecca Russo, clean diesel coordinator for the EPA in Denver... (Argus Leader file photo - The Sioux Falls School District is receiving $500,000 to buy buses with clean diesel technology to limit children's exposure to diesel exhaust)* USA - Half Million Dollar Grant For School Bus Research
Washington,DC,USA -WLTX -6 July 2009: -- South Carolina is getting a $553,918 grant to help further reduce the amount of pollution created by diesel school buses, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today... The federal funds will be used to replace old buses with new low emission hybrids and to retrofit existing buses with cleaner technology... Hybrids are more expensive than a standard diesel bus, but have lower fuel costs and greatly-reduced emissions. The new grant will also pay for DHEC to conduct training on specific actions school bus drivers should take to eliminate unnecessary diesel idling...* USA - State to get 4 hybrid school buses
Charleston County,SC,USA -The Post and Courier, by Yvonne Wenger -July 8, 2009: -- The federal government will give South Carolina more than $550,000 to put four new hybrid-electric school buses on the road and help cut pollution from old diesel buses... The low-emission hybrid buses will be the only new school buses added to the state-owned fleet this year, after the recession pushed a 15-year school-bus-replacement cycle by the wayside, Donald Tudor, transportation director for the Education Department, said Tuesday... At least one of the new buses will be assigned to Charleston County... (Photo from Brad Nettles/The Post and Courier - Katie McClure, Contracts Administrator for the Charleston County School District, checks over one of the twenty-five Buses the District recieved)* USA - $1.6M Grant Targets School Bus Emissions
San Diego,CAL,USA -The San Diego Nusiness Journal, by Ned Randolph -9 July 2009: -- The Environmental Protection Agency on July 8 awarded a $1.56 million grant to the San Diego County Air Pollution Control District towards lowering emissions of school buses... The district was one of 100 grant applicants to the EPA’s Pacific Southwest Region and will use the money to install, retrofit or replace 125 high-polluting school buses with newer, cleaner engines and filters, the EPA said... The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 allotted $350 million to the National Clean Diesel Campaign, including $206 million in competitive grants associated with developing and implementing clean diesel technology...Labels: buses purchase prospects
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