UndauntedK12 OpEd: Earth Day is over, but there’s a lot more schools can do to address climate change

This week, The Hechinger Report published “Earth Day is over, but there’s a lot more schools can do to address climate change.”

Schools play an enormous, if often overlooked, role in the climate crisis. They are the nation’s second-largest form of public infrastructure, to which we devote $114 billion each year. Schools are also one of the largest public-sector energy consumers, and their nearly half-million diesel buses represent the largest public transit fleet.

Thanks to the federal American Rescue Plan, we face a singular opportunity to pivot toward a cleaner future.