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Grants being offered to help clean up Santa Barbara County's air

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Air Pollution Control District is offering grants to help replace high pollution equipment and vehicles.

Santa Barbara County’s Air Pollution Control District is offering up cash for projects to reduce air pollution in the county.

The goal is to help individuals, businesses, government agencies and non-profits transition to lower or zero emission equipment, or vehicles.

The Air Pollution District has $3 million available in its Clean Air Grant Program. The highest priority will go to zero-emission projects, and those in low-income and disadvantaged communities.

Eligible items can range from tractors and school buses, to boats. Grants range from $10,000 to $250,000. The application window opened Monday, and runs through September 6.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.