May 27, 2002—The US Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced its Clean Cities Program Awards for 2002, which honor companies, municipal agencies, and individuals who have made significant, long-term contributions to advance the use of alternative fuels in cars and trucks. This year’s award recipients are:
- SunLine Transit Agency, Thousand Palms, Calif., for long-time use of alternative fuels in vehicles serving several desert communities in southern California;
- American Lung Association, for critical support of twenty-six local coalitions within the coast-to-coast Clean Cities network;
- The City of Tacoma, Wash., which leads the Northwest in use of biodiesel fuel derived from sources such as soybeans;
- Dallas County Schools, Texas, that uses clean-burning propane in more than six hundred buses in seven school districts;
- KeySpan Energy, New York, N.Y., for efforts to promote natural gas vehicles throughout New York and New England;
- Oklahoma Natural Gas, Oklahoma City, Okla., a public utility that uses natural gas to fuel more than 90 percent of its 1,000-vehicle fleet; and
- ENRG Inc., Seal Beach, Calif., a company that has been instrumental in establishing more than ninety natural gas fueling stations from Tucson, Ariz., to Vancouver, British Columbia.
For more information, contact the DOE Clean Cities Program.
