Driving PA Forward awards $9.5M to eight recipients seeking to reduce diesel emissions, improve air quality

Driving PA Forward’s two grant programs recently awarded $9.5 million to reduce diesel emissions, improve air quality, and promote clean transportation technologies.

Driving PA Forward’s goal is to permanently reduce lifetime oxides of nitrogen emissions from mobile sources by as much as 27,700 tons.

The Fast Charging and Hydrogen Fueling Grant Program, which aims to improve air quality, awarded five recipients $899,447.

Raceway Management Co. received $222,263 for the installation of two DC Fast Charge electric vehicle charging stations at the Onvo Travel Plaza in Lake Ariel.

Liberty Truck Center received $202,184 for the installation of two DC Fast Charge electric vehicle charging stations at the Onvo Travel Plaza in Mountain Top.

EVgo Services received three grants totaling $475,000 for the installation of DC Fast Charge electric vehicle charging stations at locations in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Montgomery County.

The Marine and Rail Freight Movers Grant Program, which aims to reduce oxides of nitrogen emissions, awarded three recipients $8.7 million.

U.S. Steel Corp. was awarded $4.5 million to replace two diesel-powered freight-switcher locomotives and with lithium-ion, battery-electric locomotives.

Bessimer & Lake Erie Railroad Co. received $2.9 million to replace a diesel freight switcher locomotive with an electric one.

Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority received $1.3 million to replace an diesel-electric-powered work locomotive with a diesel-electric model.