Drive Clean Indiana managed the BP Whiting Refinery Cleaner Air through Diesel Emissions Reductions (BP CADER) grant program which provided $450,000 through a competitive grant process in 2013-14 aimed at reducing diesel emissions in Lake County municipalities, schools, nonprofit hospitals and county government. Among the grant recipients were the Lake County Sheriff’s Department, which received $24,637 for repowering patrol/search and rescue boat engines with cleaner diesel engines and MediDock stations to reduce idling ambulances at Lake County hospitals.
Unused funds remaining in the program in 2017 were given to the School City of East Chicago to introduce propane school buses into their fleet.