California Mandates 100-Percent Zero-Emission Bus Fleet

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CBSLA/AP) — California moved Friday to eliminate fossil fuels from its fleet of 12,000 transit buses, enacting a first-in-the-nation mandate that will vastly increase the number of electric buses on the road.
The California Air Resources Board voted to require that all new buses be carbon-free by 2029. Environmental advocates project that the last greenhouse-gas-emitting buses will phase out by 2040.
While clean buses cost more than the diesel and natural gas vehicles t