LONG BEACH - The California Air Resources Board is set to announce an investments milestone for the state’s zero-emission transportation future, and highlight one of many projects funded by cap-and-trade through California Climate Investments. Officials will provide details of a new project delivering ultra-clean school buses to rural districts that have among the oldest and dirtiest-running school bus fleets in California.

Speakers:

California Air Resources Board Vice Chair Sandy Berg

Lion Electric Co. USA Chief Commercial Officer Peter Rego

When: Wednesday, May 2, at 1 p.m.

Where: Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo, Expo Hall in the Long Beach Convention Center, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90802.

Visuals: Zero-emission electric school bus, infographics
 

Background

The statewide Rural School Bus Pilot Project, administered by the North Coast Unified Air Quality Management District, is helping rural and small districts across the state convert to cleaner-running and zero-emission school buses. This is just one 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 our streets and highways. Almost half of investments are benefitting communities most impacted by pollution.