Hampton Roads was recognized as a Clean Cities Coalition by the U.S. Department of Energy in 1996. In 2001, the non-profit Virginia Clean Cities, Inc. was created to manage the Coalition. In 2009, Virginia Clean Cities formed a partnership with James Madison University enabling both organizations to leverage resources, current initiatives, and future opportunities. Virginia Clean Cities has an office at James Madison University, and serves as a cornerstone program in the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER).
The Clean Cities program is sponsored by the Department of Energy in accordance with the Energy Policy Act of 1992. This legislation’s express intent is to ensure national energy security by reducing dependence on imported petroleum products. The Clean Cities program was chartered to help achieve this objective by promoting alternative fuel use in the transportation sector.
How Does Clean Cities Work?
Clean Cities draws stakeholders from local, state, and federal agencies; public health and transportation departments; commercial fleets; transit agencies; and other government offices; as well as auto manufacturers, car dealers, fuel and equipment suppliers, public utilities, and nonprofit associations.
Clean Cities is instrumental in cultivating an advanced transportation community in which people learn about a wide range of options and technologies. In addition, Clean Cities helps create markets for alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs), hybrids, fuel blends, fuel economy, and idle reduction. More importantly, Clean Cities provides a forum for members to leverage resources, develop joint projects, collaborate on public policy issues, and promote petroleum displacement and clean air technologies.
Clean Cities partnerships address the challenge of moving the United States away from the infrastructure and practices that contribute to the nation’s dependence on imported petroleum and toward energy independence and security. Clean Cities brings the national goals outlined in DOE’s Advanced Energy Initiative to the communities that can realize the end results.
Mission Statement
Promote non-polluting, non-petroleum alternative fuels and vehicles to:
1. Increase U.S. national energy security;
2. Improve air quality and public health in the Commonwealth of Virginia;
3. Develop resulting economic, academic, and research opportunities in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Meet the Team
Virginia Clean Cities has offices in Virginia Beach and at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. In addition to the team that manages the day-to-day operation of the organization, Virginia Clean Cities also draws on a large, diverse, and engaged group of stakeholders throughout the Commonwealth and the nation.
Chelsea Jenkins Executive Director
Virginia Clean Cities
Hampton Roads Clean Cities Coalition
(757) 256-8528
cjenkins@hrccc.org
Alleyn Harned Program Coordinator
Virginia Clean Cities
c/o James Madison University
701 Carrier Drive
MSC 4115
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
540/568-8896
aharned@hrccc.org
Ryan Cornett Outreach Coordinator
Virginia Clean Cities
c/o James Madison University
701 Carrier Drive
MSC 4115
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
Office:540/568-8896
Mobile: 276/340-4199
rcornett@hrccc.org
Georgiana Ball Program Manager
Propane Corridor Development Program
Virginia Clean Cities
Richmond, Virginia
804/232/7549
gball@hrccc.org
Peter Denbigh Propane Project Reporting Officer
888.306.4018 x 705
F: 540.568.5181
Virginia Clean Cities
C/O James Madison University
701 Carrier Drive, HHS 0301
MSC 4225
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
Ken F. Newblold, Jr. Director of Research Development
James Madison University
Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Public Service
James Madison University
MSC 4111
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
540/568-1739
newbolkf@CISAT.JMU.EDU
www.jmu.edu/research
Becky Rohlf JMU-VCC Administrative Liason
James Madison University
Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Public Service
James Madison University
MSC 4111
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
About Us
Who We Are
Hampton Roads was recognized as a Clean Cities Coalition by the U.S. Department of Energy in 1996. In 2001, the non-profit Virginia Clean Cities, Inc. was created to manage the Coalition. In 2009, Virginia Clean Cities formed a partnership with James Madison University enabling both organizations to leverage resources, current initiatives, and future opportunities. Virginia Clean Cities has an office at James Madison University, and serves as a cornerstone program in the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER).
The Clean Cities program is sponsored by the Department of Energy in accordance with the Energy Policy Act of 1992. This legislation’s express intent is to ensure national energy security by reducing dependence on imported petroleum products. The Clean Cities program was chartered to help achieve this objective by promoting alternative fuel use in the transportation sector.
How Does Clean Cities Work?
Clean Cities draws stakeholders from local, state, and federal agencies; public health and transportation departments; commercial fleets; transit agencies; and other government offices; as well as auto manufacturers, car dealers, fuel and equipment suppliers, public utilities, and nonprofit associations.
Clean Cities is instrumental in cultivating an advanced transportation community in which people learn about a wide range of options and technologies. In addition, Clean Cities helps create markets for alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs), hybrids, fuel blends, fuel economy, and idle reduction. More importantly, Clean Cities provides a forum for members to leverage resources, develop joint projects, collaborate on public policy issues, and promote petroleum displacement and clean air technologies.
Clean Cities partnerships address the challenge of moving the United States away from the infrastructure and practices that contribute to the nation’s dependence on imported petroleum and toward energy independence and security. Clean Cities brings the national goals outlined in DOE’s Advanced Energy Initiative to the communities that can realize the end results.
Mission Statement
Promote non-polluting, non-petroleum alternative fuels and vehicles to:
1. Increase U.S. national energy security;
2. Improve air quality and public health in the Commonwealth of Virginia;
3. Develop resulting economic, academic, and research opportunities in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Meet the Team
Virginia Clean Cities has offices in Virginia Beach and at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. In addition to the team that manages the day-to-day operation of the organization, Virginia Clean Cities also draws on a large, diverse, and engaged group of stakeholders throughout the Commonwealth and the nation.
Executive Director
Virginia Clean Cities
Hampton Roads Clean Cities Coalition
(757) 256-8528
cjenkins@hrccc.org
Program Coordinator
Virginia Clean Cities
c/o James Madison University
701 Carrier Drive
MSC 4115
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
540/568-8896
aharned@hrccc.org
Ryan Cornett
Outreach Coordinator
Virginia Clean Cities
c/o James Madison University
701 Carrier Drive
MSC 4115
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
Office:540/568-8896
Mobile: 276/340-4199
rcornett@hrccc.org
Georgiana Ball
Program Manager
Propane Corridor Development Program
Virginia Clean Cities
Richmond, Virginia
804/232/7549
gball@hrccc.org
Propane Project Reporting Officer
888.306.4018 x 705
F: 540.568.5181
Virginia Clean Cities
C/O James Madison University
701 Carrier Drive, HHS 0301
MSC 4225
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
Director of Research Development
James Madison University
Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Public Service
James Madison University
MSC 4111
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
540/568-1739
newbolkf@CISAT.JMU.EDU
www.jmu.edu/research
JMU-VCC Administrative Liason
James Madison University
Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Public Service
James Madison University
MSC 4111
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
540/568-3640 phone
rohlfrl@jmu.edu
http://www.jmu.edu/research