By Todd Mouw, president of ROUSH CleanTech

In June, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) unanimously approved the Advanced Clean Truck Regulation. This bold step will accelerate California’s transition to zero-emissions in all commercial fleet sectors. It’s a historic and ambitious goal, and achieving it will be challenging.

The Advanced Clean Truck Regulation is a holistic approach to transition away from medium- and heavy-duty diesel vehicles to electric zero-emissions vehicles beginning in 2024.

The environmental goals are lofty. California faces challenging mandates to ...

From PlugInSites.  As of July 1, 2020, a Virginia Right-to-Charge law is in effect. This will make it easier to install an electric vehicle charging station for residents who live on property with a Home Owners Association or Condo Board. The law also applies to proprietary lessees in Virginia.

The law creates a framework for residents ...

Join the NC Clean Cities Coalitions and Plug-in NC for a free webinar, the first of a three-part series, to learn about electric transit and school bus deployments in the Southeast. We will be joined by Kathleen Staples from Dominion Energy as she shares an update and overview of Dominion Energy’s Electric School Bus Program in Virginia. We will also hear from George Linney and Jay Perkins of Greensboro Transit Authority as they share the benefits and lessons learned from ...

Free training has been announced for green fleets and interested stakeholders on biodiesel.

Training tailored to diesel technicians and mechanics

• Help answer your customer’s questions about biodiesel
• Get the latest on biodiesel fuel quality data and performance
• Impact on today’s PM traps and NO_x after-treatment systems

Get more details and register to reserve your place!

The City of Newport News has placed its first marked Ford Hybrid Police Utility Interceptor into service.

In total the City of Newport News has purchased 28 hybrid units for Police, Sheriff, and Park Rangers.  The police specific hybrid powertrain option cost the City $3,106 per vehicle and it comes with an 8 year 100,000 mile hybrid powertrain warranty.  ...

https://www.pilotonline.com/opinion/vp-ed-editorial-air-quality-0514-20200514-tdtjbag5tfbqnfmfe5dbgf56dq-story.html

Originally posted by the Editorial Board of the Virginia Pilot 5/14/2020.

There’s good news for Hampton Roads in the American Lung Association’s 2020 “State of the Air” report. The area, for the sixth year in a row, is holding firm or improving air quality.

But the report also makes clear that this is no time to become complacent. There is still much to do to make things better and to guard against newer threats to clean air.

The report card analyses data ...

This is a call to action for all fleet to consider renewable low carbon sources of fuel. Click Here for more information on growing RNG use in transportation. Click Here for a shareable info graphic on decarbonizing transportation.

We should be capping methane sources and using them for fuel and RNG is 39% of NG while renewable fuels are only ~10% of gasoline / diesel. In the available information there are suggestions for how best to go about implementing ...

The U.S. EPA Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP) is pleased to inform its Partners and other interested stakeholders about a new LMOP resource related to landfill gas (LFG) collection systems. LMOP has developed two new chapters for the program’s LFG Energy Project Development Handbook (PDH): 

• Chapter 7. Best Practices for Landfill Gas Collection System Design and Installation provides information on site-specific factors that influence the design of a gas collection system and discusses a variety ...

The U.S. Senate has reached an agreement on a $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill, which contains $25 billion in emergency relief funds for transit operators.  Transit agencies can use the funding to cover lost revenue, costs to maintain service, expenses for increased cleaning of vehicles and facilities and paying administrative leave of operations personnel in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Below is a summary of other components of the bill:

• FTA must apportion the funds within ...