Driving down emissions with electric school buses

Transitioning to cleaner alternatives such as electric school buses would mean cutting out more than four million tons of carbon dioxide from our emissions every year.

The upfront cost of transitioning to an electric school bus fleet across the country is worthwhile when considering the long-term impacts, writes Laurel Collins. Unsplash photograph by Megan Lee

Opinion

BY NDP MP LAUREL COLLINS

March 20, 2024

Every day, more than two million children in Canada take the bus to go to school—that’s 51,000 school buses. These buses emit unnecessary, yet dangerous, amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, affecting our children’s health and well-being, as well as our environment.

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