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Tripp-Delmont school district receives funding for electric school bus

Garretson school districts' new electric bus
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An electric school bus delivered to Garretson School District, which received an EPA grant to offset the cost. Tripp-Delmont School District received a similar grant this year.

The Tripp-Delmont school district is receiving EPA funding to buy an electric school bus.

The award sends more than $350,000 to the district, according to the EPA website.

The program is part of a larger bipartisan push to lower school bus emissions nationwide.

Last year, five other school districts in South Dakota, including De Smet, Garretson, Hanson, Lower Brule Day School and Viborg-Hurley all received EPA rebates from this program.

Jackson Dircks is a Freeburg, Illinois, native. He received a degree from Augustana University in English and Journalism. He started at SDPB as an intern before transitioning to a politics, business and everything in-between reporter based in Sioux Falls.

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