The U.S. Department of Transportation has announced approximately $35.6 million in extra funding to East Bay transit agencies to bolster their fleets of no- and low-emission buses.

The funding comes from Federal Transit Administration programs, which will award about $20.6 million to the Western Contra Costa Transit Authority and $15 million to the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District, along with another $198 million to California transit agencies and approximately $1.5 billion in total funding to 117 transit projects across 47 states, according to the office of U.S. Senator Alex Padilla and the office of U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland.

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Cameron Fozi is a data journalism intern at Bay City News through the Dow Jones News Fund. He is a recent graduate of UC Berkeley, where he reported and edited for the city and campus newspaper, the Daily Californian. In summer 2023, he interned for his hometown newspaper, the San Diego Union-Tribune.