Federal Strategies to Boost Jobs and Secure U.S. Energy/Environmental Leadership

On Earth Day 2021, the U.S. Government today released a statement on domestic clean energy leadership to meet the growing global crisis. Transportation notes follow:

Creating jobs and tackling climate change go hand in hand – empowering the U.S. to build more resilient infrastructure, expand access to clean air and drinking water, spur American technological innovations, and create good-paying, union jobs along the way.

To develop the goal, the Administration analyzed how ...

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Clean Energy Signs Agreement with Amazon for Low and Negative Carbon RNG

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. – April 19, 2021 – Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (Nasdaq: CLNE) today announced that it has signed an agreement with Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) to provide low and negative carbon renewable natural gas (RNG).  The fuel will be provided at 27 existing Clean Energy fueling stations and another 19 non-exclusive new or upgraded Clean Energy-owned stations that Clean Energy expects to be constructed by the end of the year. The new and ...

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Renewable Natural Gas Achieves Majority NGV Motor Fuel

Washington, DC – Natural Gas Vehicles for America (NGVAmerica) and Coalition for Renewable Natural  Gas (RNG Coalition) today announced that 53 percent of all on-road fuel used in natural gas vehicles in  calendar year 2020 was renewable natural gas (RNG).  

Captured above ground from organic material in agricultural, wastewater, landfill, or food waste, RNG can produce carbon-negative results when fueling on-road vehicles like short- and long-haul trucks,  transit buses, and refuse and recycling collection ...

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DOE Announces $162 Million to Decarbonize Cars and Trucks

Take a look at these new funding opportunity announcements and let us know how our experienced Clean Cities team can help you put together a winning proposal. 


The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today unveiled two funding opportunities totaling more than $162 million to improve efficiency and reduce carbon emissions among cars, trucks, and off-road vehicles. The funding will support the next stage of the SuperTruck initiatives—aimed at electrifying freight trucking—along with efforts to expand electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure and ...

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47 Businesses Call on Virginia Governor to Support Electric Trucks and Buses

Washington, D.C.— Dozens of businesses, including vehicle manufacturing leaders, urged Gov. Ralph Northam to support the electrification of trucks and buses throughout the commonwealth Wednesday. The Electrification Coalition delivered a letter signed by 47 businesses, urging the governor to join in the Multi-State Medium- and Heavy-Duty Zero Emission Vehicle Memorandum of Understanding, pledging that at least 30 percent of all new trucks and buses sold in the commonwealth will be zero-emission vehicles by 2030, and 100 percent by 2050. Fifteen ...

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Every Day is Earth Day for SmartWay Affiliates

Engaging in questions of environmental and societal stewardship is an increasingly important way for businesses to create sustainable value and purpose. The choices that we make both professionally and personally can make a difference in our environment.

The EPA’s SmartWay program helps companies advance supply chain sustainability by measuring, benchmarking and improving freight transportation efficiency.

This Earth Day encourage your stakeholders to reduce their environmental ...

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AFLEET Tool 2020 is now available!

Argonne National Laboratory is pleased to announce the release of the AFLEET Tool 2020: https://afleet-web.es.anl.gov/, which was developed to help Clean Cities stakeholders estimate energy use, emissions, and cost of ownership of alternative fuel vehicles. Using this link you can find the AFLEET spreadsheet, AFLEET online tool, and the Heavy-Duty Vehicle Emissions Calculator (online tool), which all have been updated. The online tools use AFLEET spreadsheet calculations and have had their underlying emissions and cost data matched ...

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Run On Less, free electric truck education

The Electric Truck Bootcamp is a 10-part educational series on electric trucks appropriate for fleet managers, utility planners, policymakers, and more. Register here!

While the Run on Less – Electric (RoL-E) event this September is focused on today’s fleet and OEM leaders who have electric trucks already in operation, the Electric Truck Bootcamp is designed with “fast followers” in mind, to increase industry awareness of electric trucks, provide professional ...

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Introducing Secretary of Energy Granholm

New leadership at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will set strategic priorities for the work managed at the Vehicle Technologies Office and the Technology Integration Program. On Thursday, February 25th, 2021, Jennifer M. Granholm was sworn in as the 16th Secretary of Energy. Secretary Granholm’s vision for Deploying the Clean Energy Revolution focuses on the cornerstone of President Biden’s climate agenda, “the goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.” Under Granholm’s leadership, DOE will play a critical ...

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DOE Announces $61.4 Million for Biofuels Research to Reduce Transportation Emissions

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $61.4 million for technologies that produce low-cost, low-carbon biofuels. Biofuels are derived from renewable resources, and can power heavy-duty vehicles that are difficult to electrify with current technologies—including airplanes and ships—to help accelerate America’s path to a net-zero emissions economy by 2050.

“Biofuels are one of our most promising paths to zero-carbon aviation and shipping, so it’s time to double down on R&D and begin to deploy these technologies at scale,” said Secretary of Energy ...

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