The Biden administration is redoubling its effort to clean up transportation from the freight industry, announcing a plan to cut emissions and releasing $1.5 billion to promote clean trucks and electric vehicles.
The “national goal” for the freight industry, which the White House announced Wednesday, builds on the administration’s previous goals of eliminating climate-warming pollution from the electricity sector by 2035 and making the transportation sector carbon-neutral by 2050.
As part of the program, EPA announced a nearly $1 billion program to replace older, high-polluting school buses and heavy-duty trucks. The Department of Transportation also announced the first round of funds in a $400 million grant program to reduce truck emissions at ports, and $72 million for an electric truck charging program.
Separately, the Department of Energy finalized a $362 million loan for a company that makes parts for EVs.
