With a state mandate for all transit agency buses to go emission-free by 2040 as a way to reduce smog and greenhouse gases, some are choosing a different way to achieve that zero-polluting goal.

Foothill Transit, based in West Covina and serving the San Gabriel Valley, parts of Los Angeles and Pomona Valley, had 13 idled battery-electric buses out of 32 in its fleet. At one point ...

Foothill Transit is readying three new hydrogen fuel-cell electric buses for revenue service starting Dec. 5 on Line 291, which serves Pomona, Claremont and La Verne. The next set of hydrogen ...

Out of Foothill Transit’s 359 buses, 307 are powered by compressed natural gas, 33 by hydrogen fuel cells and 19 by electric batteries. The agency was reportedly the first in the United States ...

Los Angeles Department of Transportation has 48 electric buses, made by Proterra and BYD, in a fleet of about 400 buses. Foothill Transit, which serves 22 cities in the San Gabriel and Pomona ...

Amazon AMZN, FedEx FDX and other big fleet operators are moving fast to replace their vast fleets of exhaust-spewing delivery trucks with clean electric vehicles. It’s a win for the environment ...

San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has 30 electric-hybrid mini-buses. And just last year, Foothill Transit — serving riders around Pomona — ordered 19 electric ENC buses.