What is the Opportunity?
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) through the Inflation Reduction Act is making funding available to states, municipalities (including school districts), Indian Tribes, and nonprofit school transportation associations for the incremental cost (i.e. the cost differential between diesel and electric) of Class 6 and 7 zero-emission vehicles including school buses, delivery trucks, utility trucks and more.
How Much Funding Is Available?
The newly released Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles Program is providing up to $932 million dollars in federal funding that can be used for two different sub-programs: the School Bus Sub-Program, which will be allocated at approximately 70%, and the Vocational Vehicles Sub-Program.
Additionally, at least 40% of the funding will flow to communities that are burdened with low air quality. Check the EPA’s list to see if your community is prioritized.
What Kind of Funding is Available?
Cost share is required and at certain defined amounts up to the per-vehicle funding cap.
How Can My Local Government or School District Apply?
Applicants need to register with Sam.gov and Grants.gov to begin the application process. Applications are due on July 25, 2024.
What Is the Fine Print?
- Replaced vehicles must be scrapped
- Anticipated 40-160 grants and/or cooperative agreements, ranging from $500,000 to $60 million per award
- CHDVP funding can be paired with IRA tax credits for electric vehicles and charging stations, and with technical assistance programs, such as EPA Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Centers (TCTACs) and the Joint Office Clean Bus Planning Awards
- Minimum 10 school buses per School Bus Sub-Program application OR 3 zero-emission replacement vehicles per Vocational Vehicles Sub-Program
- School buses not subject to Build America or Buy America requirements
- SAM.gov and Grants.gov entity registrations required
How Can I Get More Information?
- Information summary on the EPA Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles Program flier
- Review the Notice of Funding (NoFo) for program details.
- Attend a Webinar training Tuesday, April 30, 3 PM ET
How Can I Take Action In My Community?
Please take the time to copy and paste this sample email. Then send it to your local elected officials and ask them to apply for the funding to support clean air initiatives in your community. Applications are due on July 25, 2024. This funding is only available this one round with the program so they don’t want to miss the opportunity.
The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy’s Electrify the South program leverages research, advocacy, and outreach to accelerate the equitable transition to electric transportation across the Southeast. Visit ElectrifytheSouth.org to learn more and connect with us.
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The 2024 EPA Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles Grant Program Has Launched!
It’s understandable that Americans are seeing their culture descend into the pits of the cutthroat, the bastard, since that’s the character of the man whom we elected (twice) to lead our country.
If you take a minute or two to watch this video on the sportsmanship exhibited by young people, however, you may walk away with a different perspective.
I caught a glimpse of this as a soccer coach about 25 years ago, when my son Jake was a considerable powerhouse when he was little. In the first game of his under-8 season, he scored all three goals in a 3-2 win over an opponent whose dominant player — Paul, as I remember — had scored both their goals. When we walked off the field, I asked Jake if he wanted to say something to Paul. As a coach and as a father, I was lucky enough to hear the brief but poignant conversation. Jake told they boy, who was clearly taking the loss rather hard, “Hey. You’re a good player.” Paul smiled, bowed his head, and replied softly, “Thanks. But you’re better than I am.”
Maybe we’re not doomed to become heartless assholes. Maybe the core humanity with which we are all born will somehow rise to the surface and move us forward.
I just met an elderly woman from Vancouver, Canada, in town for a family wedding, who explained to me her country’s position on the tragedy that’s occurred here in the United States with Trump’s dismantling of American democracy. It happens to coincide with the meme here.
She believes that it will take generations before the rest of the world begins to trust and respect the U.S. again.
She mentioned in passing that if it weren’t for her obligation to attend the wedding that she wouldn’t even think of setting foot in the United States.
Speaking strictly for myself, I don’t have a problem with the Constitution as our Founding Fathers wrote it.
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