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National Caucus of Environmental Legislators Transportation Briefing Book

14 Aug 2024

B.22-193 (enacted 2022): Created the electrifying school buses grant program to award grant money to school districts to help finance the purchase and maintenance of electric-powered school buses, the conversion of fossil-fuel-powered school buses to electric-powered school buses, charging infrastructure, and upgrades for electric charging infrastructure and the retirement of fossil-fuel-powered s. [...] 519 (enacted 2023): requires the Efficiency Maine Trust to design and operate a 2-year vehicle-to- grid pilot project to use electric school buses to store energy from the electric grid during times of low demand and low usage rates and discharge the stored energy to the grid during times of high demand and high usage rates. [...] B.262 (enacted 2023): Requires every employee and department of the State to give preference to automobiles that minimize: (1) emissions and (2) the total cost of the automobile over the service life of the automobile; sets a state policy goal to transition all publicly-owned vehicles to vehicles which emit zero tailpipe emissions by 2050. [...] B.1091 (enacted 2021): Directed the Department of Ecology to launch the clean fuels program by the start of 2023, with a mandate for a 20% reduction in the carbon intensity of transportation fuels by 2038. [...] B.0230 (enacted 2023): requires the Department of the • The Natural Resources Environment to adopt regulations on or before December 1, 2023, Defense Council has an expert establishing requirements for the sale of new zero-emission medium- blog on Medium- and Heavy- and heavy-duty vehicles in the State.
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