Waste News cites an interview with President Joanna Underwood in “The Alt-fuel Trash Trucks Trend: Big Upsides” about the growth in natural gas-powered garbage trucks, previewing the to-be-published findings of Greening Garbage Trucks, 3rd Edition.

Read the article in its entirety in Waste News, July 23rd edition.

One very special participant in the July 7 Live Earth New York Concert at the Meadowlands Sports Complex will dramatically demonstrate an excellent way to fight climate change. Powered by clean-burning, environmentally-friendly compressed natural gas (CNG) fuel, an Interstate Waste Services Co., Inc. demonstration truck will handle trash collection duties at the event.

“At a time of escalating concerns about global warming, US energy dependence on foreign oil, and about the asthma health crisis in our country’s vehicle-polluted cities, we are thrilled to see Long Island Congressman Steve Israel stepping out front as a leader,” said Joanna Underwood, President of the national environmental organization, Energy Vision. “As a member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water, he pressed successfully for a major increase in support for the Department of Energy’s Clean Cities Program, the most effective program so far in addressing all these problems by putting alternative fuel vehicles on our roadways.”