(KNSI) – The ride to school will soon look a bit different for Sauk Rapids-Rice students.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency selected the district for a rebate program, part of $22 million allocated across Minnesota, to help it purchase clean buses. Sauk Rapids-Rice is in line for $300,000, which will partially offset buying 12 vehicles. The buses are more efficient and produce fewer emissions.
Representative Betty McCollum says, “The students on the bus and their communities get healthier air to breathe, their schools save money on more efficient vehicles, and our nation gets closer to meeting our greenhouse gas reduction targets while creating good jobs for Americans building the clean vehicle sector.”
The EPA Clean School Bus Program was created with the passage of President Biden’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which included $39 billion in spending to modernize transit programs.
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