Michigan school districts are getting 100 more school buses that run on electric or propane power.
The federal Clean School Bus Program has awarded $24 million to 27 Michigan schools and school districts, the EPA announced Thursday.
The latest grant provides enough for 97 electric school buses, and three fueled with propane. Since the program’s inception, Michigan has won $76.6 million in grants and rebates for alternative fuel school buses. That translates to 236 school buses out of the state’s fleet of 17,000, according to the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy.
Electric buses can be prohibitively expensive for schools. The federal program helps districts afford pricier alternative fuel vehicles, said Katrina Morris, executive director of the Michigan Association for Pupil Transportation.
“Any help that we can get from the feds is going to, you know, really help the…
