With a deadline looming, I was honored to speak at a press conference yesterday to get the word out about funding available through the Clean School Bus Rebate Program, as the co-founder of Mothers & Others for Clean Air.
“The program provides $5 billion in grants to school systems over the next five years for replacing those dirty diesel-burning buses,” said Laura Turner Seydel, who also co-founded MOCA.
The Biden Administration’s 2021 Infrastructure Law authorizes the Environmental Protection Agency to offer rebates to replace existing school buses with clean and zero-emission models. However, the August 19 deadline to apply for them is quickly approaching.
Georgia Interfaith Power & Light Chairman Reverend Dr. Gerald Durley, a civil rights activist and a former dean of Clark College, called poor air quality a “life and breath situation,” citing how it is harming minorities more than others.
