One more step forward for the green fuels revolution

Congressman Steve Israel launches the opening

On June 21st, Long Island (NY) took another “green fuels” step forward, with the opening of its new natural gas refueling station. Built by the California-based company, Clean Energy, it is located in Smithtown and provides fuel to the refuse fleets (all 100% natural gas fleets) serving the three largest towns on the Island: Smithtown, Huntington and Brookhaven. EV was on hand to participate in the festivities.

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New Issue of EV News Talks About “NAT GAS” Act Which Would Boost Green Transportation

With the 2010 debate over US energy policy on the horizon, EV lays out the ambitious tax incentives in the proposed NAT GAS act that would enable cities and towns nationwide to “green” their bus and truck fleets: clean up their air, break their dependence on foreign oil and put billions of dollars back in US pockets. Read about this important legislation and about federal action needed to ensure safe environmentally-sound practices in natural gas drilling.

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The Risks and Opportunities of Drilling for Shale Gas

Using natural gas in power generation and as a transportation fuel can bring millions of Americans greater energy security, healthier air and greenhouse gas reduction benefits. But the most prevalent technique today for extracting gas from deep shale deposits (“hydrofracking”) is stirring intense debate. Why? Because hydrofracking operations – proliferating mainly so far across the Western US and in Pennsylvania, scar the landscape and risk contaminating water supplies, polluting the air, and endangering public health. The question is: can we get the good without the bad? and if so how?

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New Jersey municipalities have taken their first major steps toward a “green fuels” future. To find out how, why it matters so much to this State, and where it may lead, click here.

Joanna Underwood is interviewed in the Millbrook Independent on the benefits of converting from diesel fuel to natural gas for heavy-duty bus and truck fleets.

“The more than nine million diesel trucks and buses on US roadways”, she said “are just 4% of all vehicles, but they guzzle 20% of all fuel used. Diesel refuse trucks get less than three miles per gallon, and shifting just half of them to natural gas would dsiplace 600 million gallons of expensive foreign oil a year.”

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Energy Vision sponsored a luncheon presentation focused on biomethane at Linklater’s offices in June, 2009. Watch presentations by Joanna Underwood and Gail Richardson.

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As keynote speaker at the first 2010 Meeting of the NJ Clean Cities Coalition, held in Wall, NJ, EV President Joanna Underwood congratulated the NJCCC for obtaining $15 million in stimulus funds, bringing 287 new natural gas (CNG) refuse trucks and jitney buses and four new refueling stations to Newark, Camden, Hamilton, Atlantic City and Atlantic County. She also recognized the efforts of Clean Energy in helping prepare the proposal and added kudos to EarthTech Contracting Co. in Seaville NJ which – with no stimulus support or fanfare – voluntarily bought the first CNG trucks in NJ in June 2009 “to insure the future of South Jersey’s economic lifeline: clean air and tourism.”

Underwood urged the state to maximize its new $55 million infrastructure investment by opening up as many refueling stations as possible so that more heavy duty fleets can “go green” — bringing cleaner air, reduced greenhouse gases and a secure domestic fuel source to New Jerseyans. To see Underwood’s powerpoint, contact fortin@energy-vision.org.

See map of compressed natural gas fueling stations and more pictures of the conference