The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has announced it is dispersing $3.2 million in grant funds to replace aging diesel vehicles with electric ones. 

Among the recipients is a Trumbull County business, KWA Inc Ltd, which is set to receive $217,661 to replace an aging diesel terminal tractor with a new electric one. 

The grants come from Ohio's portion of settlement funds from a federal lawsuit against Volkswagen, where the company was found to have falsified the emissions tests of it's diesel vehicles in a scandal known as "dieselgate."

The other organizations receiving funding are below:

• Dutch Maid Logistics, Inc., Cuyahoga and Portage counties, is receiving $764,865 to help replace three 2006-07 model year terminal tractors with new all-electric terminal tractors.
• Exel Inc. dba DHL Supply Chain (USA), Lucas County, is receiving $309,000 to help replace two 2015 and 2019 model year diesel terminal tractors with new all-electric terminal tractors.
• City of Mentor, Lake County, $329,000 to help replace two 1996 and 2005 diesel school buses with one new all-electric school bus.
• Metalico Akron Inc., Summit County, is receiving $754,188 to help replace a 2005 diesel material handler with one new all-electric material handler.
• Ruan Transport Corporation, Cuyahoga County, is receiving $292,165 to help replace one 2007 diesel terminal tractor with one new all-electric terminal tractor.
• Shaker Heights City Schools, Cuyahoga County, is receiving $596,144 to help replace two 2010 model year diesel school buses with new all-electric school buses.