Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): Solicitation of Project Proposals for the 5339(b) Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities Program. The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the availability of approximately $423.35 million of Fiscal Year 2019 funds for buses, bus facilities, and bus equipment. Synopses and full announcement will be posted on Grants.gov as opportunity FTA-2019-003-TPM. Proposals must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov website by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time June 21, 2019.

Summary: The purpose of the Grants for Buses and ...

LOS ANGELES – EVgo, the nation’s largest public electric vehicle (EV) fast charging network, today announced that it has contracted for 100% renewable energy to power its customers, becoming the first EV charging network in the United States to do so. EVgo contracts with its energy suppliers and renewable energy certificate (REC) partners to ensure that each gigawatt-hour delivered on its fast charging network financially supports an operating renewable energy generator in the U.S. EVgo’s 100% renewables commitment was announced ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded more than $9.3 million to replace 473 older diesel school buses across the country.

The funds are going to 145 school bus fleets in 43 states or territories, each of which will receive rebates through the EPA’s Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) funding. The new buses will reduce pollutants that are linked to health problems such as asthma and lung damage, the agency says.

Eligible replacement buses, which must be certified to the EPA’s ...

Pollution reduction equivalent of planting more than 54,000 trees already achieved with leading ethanol retail partner Protec Fuel 

BALTIMORE April 23, 2019 – Royal Farms and Protec Fuel Management, LLC (Protec) today announced the completion of the first phase in a sustainability initiative designed to ...

Celebrating Sustainability with E85 Station Opening
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
10 am
Royal Farms Retail Station
100 Monument Ave.
National Harbor, Maryland 20745

AGENDA

TOM RUSZIN, Royal Farms

RICHARD FORDYCE, US Department of Agriculture

CHIP BOWLING, Maryland Grain Producers Utilization Board

STEVE WALK, Protec Fuel Management

EMILY SKOR, Growth Energy

Also invited are numerous state and county officials

Additional Project Partners Include:
Maryland Clean Cities
Virginia Clean Cities
Maryland Energy Administration
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April 19, 2019

Despite state budget language that remains in place and could cripple the program, the State Air Pollution Control Board approved a new carbon rule Friday that links Virginia to a network of carbon-trading states.

“We have full authority to move forward at this point,” said David Paylor, director of the Department of Environmental Quality. “The governor is considering all options.”

Gov. Ralph Northam has until May 3 to veto ...

By Justin Jouvenal
April 18

The heist began with a thief backing up a large, white box truck behind a Fairfax County mall around 3:30 a.m. one day in early April, according to a search warrant. The man was not looking for cash or electronics, but something stranger: used cooking grease.

He siphoned about 150 gallons of the stinking, viscous liquid from a dumpster behind a Burger King, before a police officer patrolling Annandale Shopping Center arrested him, according to the search ...

Natural Gas Vehicles for America (NGVAmerica) and the Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas (RNG Coalition) on April 16th announced that 32 percent of all on-road fuel used in natural gas vehicles in calendar year 2018 was renewable natural gas (RNG).

Captured above ground from organic material in agricultural, wastewater, landfill or food waste, RNG – or biomethane – produces net carbon-neutral and even net carbon-negative results when fueling on-road vehicles like short- and long-haul trucks, transit buses, and refuse and recycling ...

By: Todd Mouw, President

California’s drive toward carbon neutrality is a hot button topic in the state. Last fall, former Governor Jerry Brown unveiled an ambitious climate goal to put California on the path to be carbon neutral, including transportation. The Executive Order lists one specific way is by “Supporting clean transportation to reduce petroleum use 45 percent by 2030.”

Propane autogas is a “shovel ready” solution. Now available in all states, it answers both the economic and environmental sustainability goals ...