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Climate Cast ®
Paul Huttner and Ngoc Bui

Some yellow school buses are turning green this school year

A young student walks to a school bus.
A student walks to board a school bus (though not yet an electric one) in St. Paul on Tuesday, marking a new school year.
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The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is expanding its electric school bus program using three million dollars from the state’s settlement with Volkswagen over exaggerated fuel efficiency claims.

This round of funding will cover the costs for eight more school buses and there will be future rounds in the near future. In addition, the Minnesota Department of Commerce and the Environmental Protection Agency will run separate pools of funding for electric school buses.

Brian Timerson, who oversees the program for Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, shared more about the opportunities available to switch to electric school buses.

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