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 ...
Continue Reading →Plug In America (PIA) is offering our nationwide web-based PlugStar EV Specialist Basic Course to dealers at NO COST until June 15th. If a dealership chooses to participate, we hope this opportunity will help support sales teams and electric vehicle (EV) sales during this difficult time.
PIA, a nonprofit organization with the mission of advancing widespread adoption of electric cars, is committed to the health and safety of communities and dealerships nationwide. We understand the concern and uncertainty dealerships may be ...
Continue Reading →U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture intends to make available up to $100 million in competitive grants for activities designed to expand the availability and sale of renewable fuels. Funding like this has helped fleets and fuel sites in Virginia and can help you gain access to these lower emission biofuels.
The Higher Blends Infrastructure Incentive Program (HBIIP) consists of up to $100 million in funding for competitive grants or sales incentives to ...
PHILADELPHIA (April 24, 2020) – In conjunction with the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $780,000 today to replace 39 older diesel school buses in Virginia. The funds are among $11.5 million going to replace 580 older diesel school buses in 157 school bus fleets in 43 states and Puerto Rico, each of which will receive rebates through EPA’s Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) funding. The new buses will reduce pollutants that are linked ...
Continue Reading →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 ...
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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):
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:
EV charging network EVgo is offering an incentive for critical workers. If you know anyone who still needs to drive an EV for work in health care, grocery, food services, rideshare, delivery or are otherwise experiencing hardship due to COVID19, call EVgo to work with drivers on a special time-limited deep discount. Contact EVgo: (877) 494-3833 or support@evgo.com.
EVgo is working with DEQ Virginia on a statewide charger network powered entierly by renewable electricity.
Electric Bus manufacturer BYD’s overseas plant, which is mass-producing sanitary face masks, is now running at capacity. The plant can produce 5 million masks and 300,000 bottles of disinfectant per day. BYD is growing its efforts to help alleviate severe shortages that have affected hospitals ozpills in the face of the COVID-19 global outbreak.
Generation 180 new “Going Electric” pledge comes with a fun video of UVA basketball greats and sports announcers racing in their traditional gas vs. electric cars. Who will win? Find out here. If the video isn’t your cup of tea you can follow the link to take the pledge and automatically be entered to win a pair of courtside tickets to a UVA men’s basketball home game next season.
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