Recent Coverage
An interview on biomethane on Calgary Today, AM770 CHQR, June 3, 2008.
Using Organic Waste to Fuel Your Car, Troy Media Corporation, May 11, 2008.
Coverage from the release of Fueling a Greener Future:
- On the Huffington Post, April 10, 2008
- On the Green Daily, April 11, 2008
- On CNBC
Op-Ed, City Garbage Trucks can be Clean, Poughkeepsie Journal, December 9, 2007
Joanna Underwood writes to city residents and council members to consider natural gas refuse trucks.
The Alt-fuel Trash Trucks Trend: Big Upsides, Waste News, July 23rd edition
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.
Live Earth Clean Up, USA Today, July 6, 2007
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.
OpEd, Smithtown vs. OPEC,
The New York Times, July 30, 2006
“Some may think Smithtown NY an unlikely pioneer in a major technology revolution. But last month leaders of this community of 116,000 made a historic decision: by January, all refuse trucks serving the town must be powered by natural gas instead of diesel fuel. Smithtown is the first community on the East Coast to do this. If we are lucky other cities will follow its lead”
Shifting Gears, Part 1, September 2006
Shifting Gears, Part 2, Octocber 2006
Resource Recycling Magazine
“The marketplace rarely pays businesses to do the environmentally preferable thing, but today, in the case of natural gas and other alternative fuels, it is happening. And where the market is not doing enough, federal and state incentives are picking up the slack….Two federal laws enacted in August 2005 now provide tax credits to the users of alternative fuel vehicles….”
Coming to your Neighborhood?,
Hudson Valley Green Times, Vol. 26, #1, 2007
“For leaders and residents of the Hudson Valley Region, the time is ripe to get on board the vehicles of the future. Refuse and recycling trucks are surely prime candidates. But other fleets …buses, even light duty municipal and taxi fleets can get into the act…Embracing the exciting economic, health, energy security and environmental benefits of what will surely be one of the greatest technology revolutions of this new century will mean a big step forward in shaping a sustainable future for the Region.”
Energy Vision: A New Environmental Voice,
Annals of Earth Interview by Joan Pearlman, 2007
“Joan Pearlman, who teaches at the American Folk Art Museum Institute in New York City, interviews our mutual friend and dynamic environmental leader, Joanna Underwood, who has taken on reforming transportation through her new organization, Energy Vision.”
Previous Coverage
Our Relationship to Resources, Satya
Press Releases
“Actor and environmental activist Blythe Danner today joined an impressive gathering of business people, politicians, environmentalists, and community activists to celebrate and praise, of all things, garbage trucks. The two brand new natural gas-powered trucks and the natural gas sweeper unveiled today in Union Square stood as the unlikely symbols of New York City’s push to rid its air of hazardous pollutants.”
Commentary on Congressman Steve Israel’s Energy Leadership
“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.”