Tuesday, October 22, 2019
(October 22, 2019) — School buses travel over four billion miles each year, providing the safest transportation to and from school for more than 25 million American children every day. However, diesel exhaust from these buses has a negative impact on human health, especially for children, who have a faster breathing rate than adults and whose lungs are not yet fully developed. Diesel buses not only emit harmful particulates, they are also noisy, don't easily start in cold weather, require more maintenance, and have a much higher cost of ownership.
The Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) of 2010 allows the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to offer rebates, in addition to grants, to reduce harmful emissions from older, dirtier, harmful diesel vehicles. The rebate program has funded vehicle replacements or retrofits for almost 2,000 vehicles to date.
The 2019 DERA School Bus Rebates will offer over $10 million to public and private fleet owners for the replacement of old diesel school buses with new buses certified to EPA's cleanest emission standards. EPA will award selected applicants $15,000-20,000 per bus for scrapping and replacing old buses. Eligible replacement buses include clean, quiet, economical propane autogas.
Deadline for emailing applications with scans of bus titles and registrations to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 4:00 p.m. ET.
The Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) of 2010 allows the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to offer rebates, in addition to grants, to reduce harmful emissions from older, dirtier, harmful diesel vehicles. The rebate program has funded vehicle replacements or retrofits for almost 2,000 vehicles to date. The 2019 DERA School Bus Rebates will offer over $10 million to public and private fleet owners for the replacement of old diesel school buses with new buses certified to EPA's cleanest emission standards. EPA will award selected applicants $15,000-20,000 per bus for scrapping and replacing old buses. Eligible replacement buses include clean, quiet, economical propane autogas.
Deadline for emailing applications with scans of bus titles and registrations to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 4:00 p.m. ET.
