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Opinion: Time has come for electric school buses
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Hall County Schools District bus driver Richard Smallwood checks the rear tires of his bus Monday, Aug. 6, 2018, at the district's bus yard in preparation for the first day of school Tuesday. - photo by Scott Rogers
Both the proposed Infrastructure Bill and the Build Back Better Act being debated in DC now support electrification of our vehicles including school buses. After attending The Georgia Roundtable on Zero Emission School Buses which included representatives from the American Lung Association, Mothers for Clean Air, State and Federal Legislative Leaders and Representatives from the Electrification Coalition, I felt it important to pass the information I learned on to residents of North Georgia.