State law requires every school bus across New York to be powered by clean electric energy by 2035, and bans non-electric school bus purchases by 2027. Environmental advocates are pushing for a City Council hearing on the transition.
Fall is officially here, and so are the yellow buses that take kids to and from school.
But these buses, which are mostly powered by fossil fuels, also emit the fumes that drive climate change and pollute the air.
To change that, the state passed a law three years ago that requires every school bus across New York to be powered by clean electric energy by 2035. And starting in 2027, every new school bus purchased must be a zero-emission vehicle…