Sue Pope Fund Awards $1 Million For Clean-Air Efforts In North Texas
By Randy Lee Loftis
Organizers said they believe the fund is the largest such private effort in Texas. They received $11 million in grant applications and chose six totaling $1 million.
"The exciting thing to me is that this is an example for other companies around the country," said Katy Hubener, a Duncanville Realtor and environmental activist who coordinates the grant program. "It will certainly go a long way in providing some improvements for the region."
The grant awards are:
• $225,000 to the Council of Governments for the replacement of an all-diesel school bus with a hybrid bus for a North Texas school district.
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