EPA freeze jeopardizes green school bus plans

EPA freeze jeopardizes green school bus plans

BOSTON — Looking to cut pollution from its fleet of diesel-burning school buses, an Oklahoma school district last year doubled its electric vehicles.

The rise of the electric school bus is in danger of running aground in the United States. Thousands of such school buses are now in service across the country, from Louisiana to California, thanks to billions in federal subsidies. But since President Donald Trump imposed a nationwide freeze on government spending in late January, the project has largely ground to a halt. In Europe, electric transit buses are regularly found to have defects.