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Colorado’s Governor John Hickenlooper has signed a bill into law that would require state agencies to purchase alternative-fuel fleet vehicles, with an emphasis on those fueled by natural gas.

Tags: CNG, Legislation, Natural Gas, State Fleet, Natural Gas Vehicles, State of Colorado

Pennsylvania State Senator Timothy Solobay has introduced a resolution, SR 38, in the Pennsylvania Senate to direct the State’s Department of General Services to conduct a study that would analyze whether the State can convert its fleet to run on natural gas.

Tags: Natural Gas, Natural Gas Vehicles, State of Pennsylvania, Fleet study, alternative-fuel conversion

The City of Lafayette, La., is building a new compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station at the Lafayette Consolidated Government's public works department.

Tags: Natural Gas, CNG vehicles, CNG fueling station, Louisiana, City of Lafayette

LAS VEGAS, NV - NGVi is the first and only ASE-certified CASE provider that specializes in training for the natural gas vehicle industry.

Tags: Natural Gas, ASE certification, Technician training, NGVi

AUSTIN, TX - TxDOT said the program will begin with the purchase of four CNG-fueled Ford F-250 pickup trucks.

Tags: Natural Gas, Ford F-250, State of Texas, Texas Department of Transportation

WASHINGTON - The STATE Act would create a grant program that would offer states funding to develop initiatives that encourage the use of natural gas as a transportation fuel and public and private investment in natural gas vehicles and transportation infrastructure.

Tags: Natural Gas, Grant funding

DETROIT – The governors of Colorado and Oklahoma visited Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors in Detroit on July 16 to promote development of natural gas vehicles that these states can use in their fleets.

Tags: Natural Gas, State of Kentucky, State Fleet, Chrysler, State of Wyoming, State of Louisiana, State of Utah, State of Pennsylvania, State of New Mexico, State of Colorado, Ford, General Motors, State of West Virgina, State of Oklahoma, State of Texas, Detroit Three, State of Maine

SACRAMENTO, CA - Two school districts received funds for natural gas fueling facilities, and the rest of the funds go toward “buy-down” incentives to pay the difference between conventional vehicles and an alternative-fuel model.

Tags: Natural Gas, Grant funding, California Energy Commission, propane autogas, CNG fueling station, Arcadia Unified School District, Calexico Unified School District

CHARLESTON, WV - West Virginia’s Governor Earl Ray Tomblin announced the individuals who will make up the State’s new Natural Gas Vehicle Task Force, which will evaluate whether the State can cost-effectively transition its fleet to run on natural gas.

Tags: Natural Gas, Natural Gas Vehicles, State of West Virgina

SUGAR LAND, TX - The City plans to convert 99 non-public safety vehicles first and heavy equipment later using a phased approach.

Tags: CNG, Natural Gas, Texas, City of Sugar Land

BATON ROUGE, LA - Louisiana's HB 1213 would also provide funding for natural gas or bi-fuel vehicle purchases by State agencies. If passed as-is, it would go into effect Oct. 1.

Tags: Natural Gas, State of Louisiana, liquefied natural gas

AUSTIN, TX – The Railroad Commission of Texas expanded a propane-fuel vehicle grant to include natural gas vehicles. The Commission has about $700,000 available in grants to help public fleets purchase natural gas vehicles.

Tags: Natural Gas, Grant funding, State of Texas

DECATUR, GA - The new renewable fuels facility will provide natural gas that will eventually fuel 70 sanitation vehicles in the County’s fleet.

Tags: Natural Gas, Refuse trucks, CNG fueling station, Dekalb County, landfill gas, DeKalb County Department of Sanitation

DENVER - The Colorado Governor’s Energy Office (GEO) plans to work with the Colorado Municipal League to get multiple municipalities to participate in a multi-state memorandum of understanding and to help them add natural gas vehicles to their fleets.

Tags: Natural Gas, Natural Gas Vehicles, CNG fueling station, State of Colorado, Colorado Governor's Energy Office

AUSTIN, TX - The Commission said the grant money is designed to “support the development of a network of natural gas vehicle fueling stations to serve as a foundation for a self-sustaining market for natural gas vehicles in Texas.”

Tags: CNG, LNG, Natural Gas, fueling station, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, TCEQ

PENSACOLA, FL - The City of Pensacola and local utility Emerald Coast Utilities Authority plan to begin transitioning their fleets to run on natural gas. In addition, the City's natural gas utility Energy Services of Pensacola will install fueling stations.

Tags: Natural Gas, Natural Gas Vehicles, utility fleets, City of Pensacola, Emerald Coast Utilities Authority, Energy Services of Pensacola

CHICAGO - The City of Chicago has ordered 40 Chevrolet Express vans and 40 Silverado pickup trucks.

Tags: Chevrolet, CNG, Natural Gas, CNG conversion, City of Chicago, IMPCO, General Motors Corp.

WASHINGTON - The new tool allows users to enter specific data into an Excel spreadsheet to determine whether the costs of using natural gas will work in their respective operations.

Tags: Natural Gas, Clean Cities

GREER, SC - Last week, the City of Greer unveiled two new vehicles, a Ford Fusion and Ford F-150, that had been converted to run on natural gas. Greer has set a goal of converting at least 15 percent of the City's fleet to operate on natural gas by 2020.

Tags: Green, Natural Gas

WASHINGTON - The Middle Class Tax Relief Act of 2010 (HR 4853), passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama on Dec. 17, includes extensions of two key incentives for natural gas vehicles. In addition, the law extends the ethanol tax credit through 2011, and retroactively extends the biodiesel tax incentive and the renewable diesel incentive through 2011.

Tags: Biodiesel, Natural Gas, Ethanol, biofuel, NGVAmerica, clean diesel, biomethane, Growth Energy, Natural Gas Vehicles