Georgia receives $60 million in EPA grant funding for clean energy buses

The bus shown above is one of Blue Bird's 1500 electric buses on the road today. School districts nationwide are receiving grants from the federal government to replace old diesel buses with electric ones. (Marlon Hyde/WABE)

On a brisk January morning, a yellow school bus pulls up to Stone Mountain Middle School in Dekalb County.

As the doors open, Brad Beauchamp, the alternative fuels manager for Blue Bird, one of the country’s largest producers of non-diesel school buses, motions a group of students and adults to get onboard.

“Welcome to the Blue Bird,” he shouts enthusiastically. “All American electric bus.”