Alabama DRAFT VW Mitigation Plan Released Dec 27th
Alabama Releases Draft VW Mitigation Plan
The Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs (ADECA) today released the Volkswagen Environmental Mitigation Trust Beneficiary Mitigation Plan.
A public hearing will be held on January 15, 2019 in the 7th floor auditorium at the Alabama Center for Commerce located at 401 Adams Avenue in Montgomery.
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Your Input is Very Important!
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Please plan to attend the Public Hearing on January 15th if, after reading the Draft VW Mitigation Plan, you feel further input should be considered before the Plan is finalized and sent to the Governor for her signature.
Your positive input is very important to the success of distributing $25.5 Million to entities in our State.
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The Alabama Clean Fuels Coalition is excited about the release of the Draft VW Mitigation Plan. Finalization of the Plan and release of requests for proposals will allow public and private entities in Alabama the opportunity to defray significant costs when replacing older (pre-2009)vehicles with newer, cleaner alternative fuel vehicles. Read the Draft Plan. Attend the Public Input meeting. Prepare your proposal ideas. Call us if we can be of assistance.
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2018 DERA School Bus Rebate Program
School buses travel over four billion miles each year, providing the safest transportation to and from school for more than 25 million American children every day. However, diesel exhaust from these buses has a negative impact on human health, especially for children, who have a faster breathing rate than adults and whose lungs are not yet fully developed.
The 2018 School Bus Rebate Program will offer over $9 million to public and private fleet owners for the replacement of old diesel school buses with new buses certified to EPA’s cleanest emission standards. EPA will award selected applicants $15,000-20,000 per bus for scrapping and replacing old buses.
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