What is an EPA Clean School Bus Demonstration Project? Here's how the EPA describes a demonstration project.

"To support EPA's efforts to reduce pollution from school buses, Congress included $5 million in EPA's budget for a cost-shared grant program designed to assist school districts in upgrading their bus fleets. This grant competition closed on August 1, 2003. EPA received over 120 applications requesting nearly $60 million in funds. Seventeen demonstration projects were selected for funding. The projects will demonstrate a variety of approaches to reducing pollution from school buses. These demonstrations will involve about 4,000 buses and remove over 200,000 pounds of diesel particulate matter from the air over the next 10 years." (source: EPA website)

Listed below are the 17 Clean School Bus Demonstration Projects the agency funded in October 2003, or visit the 2004 and 2005 demo project pages.