Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) released an update to the Rural Electric Vehicle (EV) Infrastructure Toolkit, titled Charging Forward: A Toolkit for Planning and Funding Rural Electric Mobility Infrastructure. This much-anticipated update includes new information from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act along with greater focus on Tribal communities and expanded content on electric transit, micromobility, and accessible design. First published in February 2022, the Rural EV Infrastructure Toolkit serves as a one-stop shop to help ...

Program Overview

The Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Discretionary Grant Program (CFI Program) is a new competitive grant program created by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to strategically deploy publicly accessible electric vehicle charging and alternative fueling infrastructure in the places people live and work – urban and rural areas alike – in addition to ...

Happy 30^th birthday to the Clean Cities Coalition Network!

Join us in celebrating 30 years of boosting the country’s energy security, economic vitality, and quality of life by advancing affordable, efficient, and clean transportation fuels and technologies. Over 30 years, the network has built bipartisan support, deep connections within the transportation industry, and active partnerships with 20,000 public and private ...

Tucker Perkins of Richmond conveyed a valuable opinion in a Richmond Times-Dispatch column on April 7, 2023. Please click this link below for a read. All industries in Virginia and the nation are in a rush over the decades ahead to totally decarbonize energy and fuel sources we use today with zero emissions, biofuels and synthetic options. Beyond the federal, state and local community goals, there is another Environmental Social and Governance Goals (ESG) adopted by many Virginians in their ...

The 2023 Rally in Richmond began with a workshop on federal transportation grants and tax credits. Presentations and notes are posted below. Virginia Clean Cities stands by to assist localities and eligible entities on submissions for grants or to aggregate smaller projects into a state application. Please see our page here for information on ...

GoGreen Communications Inc, the leader in idle reduction behavior modification involving corporate fleets of vehicles, is launching a pilot of its program with fleet operations at City of Raleigh, North Carolina. This will involve multiple departments across the city under the guidance of Vehicle Fleet Services.  

“In an organization as large as Releigh’s municipal fleet operation, there is great potential for reducing costs, greenhouse gas emissions and improving air quality with IDLE FREE for our kids® for Fleets eLearning program,” ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) this year launched a new up to $50 million program to help communities across the country transition to clean energy systems that are reliable, affordable, equitable, and reflective of local priorities. The Clean Energy to Communities program (C2C) will connect local governments, electric utilities, community-based groups, and others with the innovative modeling and testing tools developed at DOE’s world-class national laboratories to transform their clean energy goals and ambitions into reality. 

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