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UPS makes largest purchase of renewable natural gas yet in the US: 170M gallon equivalents over 7 years

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to purchase 170 million gallon equivalents of renewable natural gas (RNG) through 2026. Renewable natural gas, produced naturally from bio sources such as landfills and dairy farms, not only turns trash to gas, but it turns it into clean gas. El Paso, Texas; Fort Worth, Texas; Kansas City, Kan.; UPS CNG tractor trailer.

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Clean Energy wins $10M, multi-year transit deal with New Jersey Transit

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SP+, a provider of professional parking management, has signed a 5-year fueling agreement with Clean Energy to fuel 16 CNG buses for a new Consolidated Rent-A-Car facility located at the San Diego International Airport. In 2015, Dillon’s fleet consumed 1.1 million GGEs of natural gas in Texas. The fueling contract runs through 2020.

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Aventine sends first unit-train shipment of ethanol from Nebraska to Alabama

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Aventine Renewable Energy Inc., A BNSF ethanol unit train may consist of 96 ethanol tank cars, 2 buffer cars (62' in length) and 4 BNSF locomotives (75' in length). With unit-train capacity, Beemer noted, Aventine is looking to open other new 100-car unit train markets, including Watson, California; Chicago and East St.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

They join Founding Members from these cities: Arlington, TX, Baltimore, Boulder, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Irvine, CA, Los Angeles, Memphis, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, and Wenatchee, WA. Afterward several members of Congress went outside for test drives in a plug-in hybrid brought to Washington by Cal-Cars.