Mayoral Executive Order to Incentivize Electric Vehicles & Environmental Justice

What’s happening? Seattle Mayor Executive Order during the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference includes ways to incentivize the electrification of vehicles

Why is this important? The order establishes establishes a $1 million program to convert heavy-duty diesel trucks — including school buses, garbage trucks and drayage port trucks

How will this be important? Converting the drayage vehicles to EV, which travel from he port through neighborhoods that are more dramatically impacted by clean air will help Seattle be a leader in for environmental justice.

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