The Biden administration is sending $19 million to some of New Jersey’s largest districts to put more electric school buses on the road.
U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) on Thursday touted the funds going toward new busses in five districts: Union City, Elizabeth, Newark, Bloomfield and Lakewood. The grant was awarded to Van-Con, Inc., which serves those districts and will use the money to purchase 42 new electric school buses and 28 bus chargers.
Booker was joined by officials at Jose Marti STEM Academy in Union City, including Olivia Glenn, a Camden native and current chief of staff for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 2.
The EPA’s Clean School Bus Program, which was created as part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in 2021, is providing $5 billion nationwide toward electric and low-emission school buses.
