Several opportunities present themselves for school bus emissions funding, but few are handed to select individual groups to bring projects into fruition. Strengthening candidacy for grant funding is certainly meticulous but possible with the right tools and advisement, especially for a sizeable settlement like Volkswagen's. School Transportation News hosted an hour-long webinar on June 20 that explored upcoming funding opportunities for school transportation. Joe Annoti, a senior programs manager for Gladstein, Neandross and Associates, discussed Volkswagen's Environmental Mitigation Trust agreement and its $2.9 billion in grant money to clean vehicle emissions. Annotti also shared his counsel on optimizing funding with grant money. In all, Volkswagen paid $14.7 billion in penalties for cheating emissions tests for its diesel passenger vehicles.