article thumbnail

New “50 by 50” Commission seeks to halve US transportation energy use by 2050

Green Car Congress

Betsy Price, Mayor of Fort Worth, Texas; Gil Quiniones, President & CEO, New York Power Authority; Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council; Dan Turton, Vice President, North America Public Policy, General Motors; Greg White, Executive Director, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners; and. .;

article thumbnail

US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

Green Car Congress

These projects put more than 9,000 alternative fuel and energy-efficient light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles on the road, and establish 542 refueling locations across the country. Team partners will purchase a total of 191 commercially available light- to heavy-duty alternative-fuel and advanced-technology vehicles.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Cupcake A.T.M.s and Fire Pits: What You Love at the Airport

Baua Electric

For Bill Tsutsui, 60, it was the vending machine at Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport in eastern Washington that sells canned cheese. Washington State University began experimenting with canning cheese in the 1930s, in search of packaging that would prolong the product’s shelf life. You get really jaded going through airports.