City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York City
NYC Gets $61 Million to Electrify School Buses. Is It Enough?
New York City recently secured $61.1 million in federal funding from the Environmental Protection Agency for 180 new electric school buses—grant money to help the city move away from powering its fleet with oil and gas.
But the city’s fleet still has over 10,000 buses running on polluting fossil fuels that contribute to global warming, and has a long way to go before guaranteeing all school buses in operation will be electric by 2035, as required by state law.
Opinion: Congestion Pricing is a Step Forward for NYC
“Congestion pricing is just one of many tools that will help tame some of the city street chaos a generation of car-centric planning left us with. And one of the primary benefactors of congestion pricing will be automobile drivers themselves.”
