The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is now accepting applications for battery electric and propane school buses through the Clean School Bus Program. DEQ will award $20 million to Virginia public schools from the Volkswagen Environmental Mitigation Trust through two rounds of competitive application processes. The grants will fund the price difference between a battery electric bus or a propane bus and equivalent diesel bus, up to $265,000 per electric bus and associated charger and customer-side installation or up to ...

“As Congress considers major investments in the nation’s infrastructure, it must take bold steps to address the climate emergency and continue to provide low-cost, reliable energy to American consumers. The current system of energy incentives is overly complex and far less effective than it should be, with more than 40 different energy tax incentives, including permanent subsidies for Big Oil. More than half are too short-term to effectively stimulate investments, while also providing different subsidies to different technologies with no ...

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 every ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...