Transit professionals from all over the country are in Philadelphia this week for a conference about lowering their planet-warming emissions.

SEPTA is hosting this year’s Zero Emissions Bus Conference in Center City Philadelphia. It’s the first time it’s been held on the East Coast, said Dan Raudebaugh, executive director of the Center for Transportation and the Environment, which runs the conference.

“California has for a long time been the leader in zero emission bus deployments,” Raudebaugh said. “But the industry has grown to the point where there’s a lot of activity going on in Philadelphia. There’s a lot of activity now going on in Washington, D.C. and in Chicago, so we wanted to move to the East Coast.”

The conference teaches transit professionals about the basics of battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell buses and how to roll them out.

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