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With its July 22 announcement that it is disbursing $4.3 billion in taxpayer-funded grants for an assortment of climate projects around the country, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) secured the loot for grateful recipients before President Joe Biden leaves office in January. The money will go to 25 projects across 30 states (some will cross state borders) and will target greenhouse gas emissions from "transportation, electric power, commercial and residential buildings, industry, agriculture/natural and working lands, and waste and materials management," the EPA said in a press release.

The EPA climate grants continue the Biden administration's practice of throwing taxpayer money at the transition to EVs. And its timing would appear to be a bit off. Unsold EVs continue to pile up on dealer lots across the country, with Ford and GM cutting production of the vehicles, and Ford losing over $100,000 on the sale of each new EV.

Then there are the electric school buses.

In affluent Montgomery County, Maryland, just north of Washington, D.C., an electric bus company that was supposed to deliver hundreds of vehicles to the biggest school district in the state "repeatedly missed delivery deadlines and made late repairs" to its school buses, which caused "millions of dollars in wasteful spending," The Washington Post reported last week.

Some of the electric buses that were delivered had to have their batteries replaced and were plagued by high-voltage wiring problems.

Citing a report by the Montgomery County inspector general, the Post reported that the school district is now shelling out upwards of $14 million to buy diesel-powered buses thanks to its vehicle deficit.

In other words, instead of decarbonizing its school bus fleet, Montgomery County is recarbonizing it.

























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