CARB Pushes CO2 Reductions with EV School Buses

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The death of the diesel continues.

The California Air Resources Board is set to announce an investment milestone for the state’s zero-emission transportation future and highlight one of many projects funded by cap-and-trade through California Climate Investments today.

Officials will provide details of a new project delivering ultra-clean electric school buses to rural districts that have the oldest and dirtiest-running school bus fleets with diesel engines.

California Air Resources Board Vice Chair Sandy Berg will explain a statewide Rural School Bus Pilot Project, administered by the North Coast Unified Air Quality Management District, that is helping rural and small districts across the state convert to cleaner-running and zero-emission school buses. This is just the latest example of how cap-and-trade investments help clean the air and reduce climate-changing gases by putting hundreds of the cleanest cars, trucks and buses on California streets and highways, CARB claims. Almost half of investments are benefiting communities most impacted by pollution.

The cap-and-trade program is one of the strategies California will employ to reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that cause climate change. It is designed and implemented to for California to meet its goal of reducing GHG emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2020, and ultimately achieving an 80% reduction from 1990 levels by 2050. Under cap-and-trade, an overall limit on GHG emissions from capped sectors will be established by the cap-and-trade program and facilities subject to the cap will be able to trade permits (allowances) to emit GHGs.

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Ken Zino, editor and publisher of AutoInformed, is a versatile auto industry participant with global experience spanning decades in print and broadcast journalism, as well as social media. He has automobile testing, marketing, public relations and communications experience. He is past president of The International Motor Press Assn, the Detroit Press Club, founding member and first President of the Automotive Press Assn. He is a member of APA, IMPA and the Midwest Automotive Press Assn. He also brings an historical perspective while citing their contemporary relevance of the work of legendary auto writers such as Ken Purdy, Jim Dunne or Jerry Flint, or writers such as Red Smith, Mark Twain, Thomas Jefferson – all to bring perspective to a chaotic automotive universe. Above all, decades after he first drove a car, Zino still revels in the sound of the exhaust as the throttle is blipped during a downshift and the driver’s rush that occurs when the entry, apex and exit points of a turn are smoothly and swiftly crossed. It’s the beginning of a perfect lap. AutoInformed has an editorial philosophy that loves transportation machines of all kinds while promoting critical thinking about the future use of cars and trucks. Zino builds AutoInformed from his background in automotive journalism starting at Hearst Publishing in New York City on Motor and MotorTech Magazines and car testing where he reviewed hundreds of vehicles in his decade-long stint as the Detroit Bureau Chief of Road & Track magazine. Zino has also worked in Europe, and Asia – now the largest automotive market in the world with China at its center.
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