EPA awards Arizona schools $320K to purchase cleaner buses

PHOENIX — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday it will award federal funds to Arizona schools to replace older, high-polluting diesel school busses with cleaner models. The Theodore Roosevelt School in Fort Apache and Glendale Union High School District won national competitive efforts and will receive rebates totaling $320,000.

Clean technology company Exro to open US headquarters in Mesa

Exro Technologies, a clean technology company, will open its United States headquarters in Mesa, officials said in a press release Tuesday. The 15,000-square-foot location will serve as a multipurpose facility to expand research, development and testing to improve technology within different types of electric vehicles.