Three years ago, Vice President Kamala Harris was tasked with overseeing the US government's billion-dollar investment to order thousands of electric buses across hundreds of American school districts.
A new analysis has shown that after spending billions of dollars, only 60 school buses have been delivered while many school districts have withdrawn from the program.
According to the Washington Free Beacon, Harris and EPA administrator Michael Regan, through the Clean School Bus program, used almost $1 billion in federal rebates for 389 school districts across all 50 states to help deliver 2,463 electric school buses.
According to an analysis of federal data by the outlet, a mere 27 of those districts have proven to the EPA that their buses were delivered and that their diesel-fueled buses were taken out of service.
Those districts have only deployed a total of 60 battery-electric or low-emissions propane-fueled school buses.
The Clean School Bus program was created as part of Biden's 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, which set aside $5 billion in rebates and grants for the EPA to distribute.
During a trip to Seattle in 2022 when Harris announced the initiative to electrify the nation's school buses, in nearby Kent, WA, all 3 of the district's electric school buses were out of service.
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