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Welcome!
Clean Cities is a government-industry partnership designed to reduce petroleum consumption in the transportation sector by advancing the use of alternative fuels and vehicles, idle reduction technologies, hybrid electric vehicles, fuel blends, and fuel economy.
Virginia Clean Cities is one of almost 90 coalitions across the U.S. that help meet the objectives of improving air quality, developing regional economic opportunities, and reducing the use of imported petroleum. Virginia Clean Cities was incorporated in November 2001 as a 501 (c) (3) non-profit corporation. |
Thanks to our 2008 Sponsors & Strategic Partners for your support! |
Virginia Clean Cities and the Propane Research & Education Council Present...
Propane Vehicles Seminar
Special Focus on Propane in School Buses
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Hosted by: James City County
Location: James City Williamsburg Community Center, 5301 Longhill Road, Williamsburg, VA 23188
Register by Thursday, April 17th - Instructions below
Agenda
Target Audience: Fleet Managers and anyone with an interest in propane for transportation
| 11:00 - 11: 15 |
Welcome & Introductions |
Al Christopher and Chelsea Jenkins, Virginia Clean Cities |
| 11:15 - 12:00 |
Propane 101: Covers the basics of transitioning and using propane in various transportation fleet applications |
Greg Zilberfarb, Propane Research & Education Council |
| 12:00 - 12:45 |
Lunch and Networking |
Sponsored by PERC |
| 12:45 - 1:30 |
Blue Bird Propane Powered Vision School Bus: Provides and overview of the first dedicated propane powered school bus to be offered by a major manufacturer in the U.S. since 2002 |
Claude Reid, Commonwealth Bus Sales |
| 1:30 - 2:00 |
Q & A |
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Event is FREE thanks to the Propane Education and Research Council!
To register, fill out the form on the propane page or send an email to Chelsea at cjenkins@hrccc.org with "propane seminar" in the subject line by Thursday, April 17th, or call (757) 233-8982. Send the following information in the email.
Name:
Occupation:
Company Information:
Email:
Phone:
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Biodiesel Seminars
NEW SEMINAR ANNOUNCED! Thanks to the South Centre Corridors RC&D, Virginia Clean Cities is helping to host a biodiesel seminar in Prince George County. Download the flyer here or visit the page for more information about the seminar and how to register. |
Current Happenings and News
Download Our Bi-Monthly Stakeholders Update!
Virginia Clean Cities publishes a bi-monthly stakeholders update containing discussion of our current projects, interesting current events and news, upcoming alternative fuels events, and updates on what our stakeholders are up to. You can download the current update by visiting our publications page, or clicking here.
Virginia, Maryland and D.C. E85 Infrastructure Project
First grant related publicly accessible E85 station opening at the Georgetown Chevron in Washington D.C. by Mid-Atlantic Petroleum Properties, LLC.
E85 station locator brochure now available for download. This brochure details Virginia, Maryland and D.C. E85 stations and groups them by type of access (unrestricted public, restricted public, private and planned).
A new section titled "Financing Alternative Fuels - Making a Business Case" is now posted to the E85 Infrastructure page. This section contains tools such as a discounted cash flow calculator for E85 investment and a link to a DoE Clean Cities website featuring a comprehensive business case analysis for E85, UL updates, and a fleet managers toolkit.
Biodiesel Fuel Quality Seminars
Materials from all of the biodiesel fuel quality seminars are posted to the page, including all presentations, handouts, and tools.
Dragon Run Biodiesel Project
Virginia Clean Cities is now working with certain Dragon Run watershed counties to assist in a biodiesel fleet transition. Materials used and created to accomplish the project goals are now posted to the page. These can be used by other municipalities as a roadmap to determine biodiesel market viability and potential to provide sustainable natural resource-based economic benefit to the community.
Virginia Hydrogen Economy Roundtable
Virginia's Vision and Strategy for the Hydrogen Economy produced by the Virginia Hydrogen Economy Roundtable is available for download.
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DEQ Publishes Virginia Biodiesel Environmental Compliance Primer
The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality recently posted new guidance material introducing the environmental regulatory obligations concerning biodiesel production. Visit the DEQ site to download this excellent primer or download here
http://www.deq.state.va.us/osba/new.html
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Biofuels and Green House Gas Brouhaha
Two papers on how biofuels impact carbon dioxide pollution caused quite a commotion when news organizations published stories about the reports, which first appeared Feb. 7 in Science Express, an early on-line version of Science Magazine. Can it be true that clearing land to grow corn and soybeans can release so much carbon dioxide that it would take up to 420 years to pay back the carbon debt, using the relatively small annual air quality benefits that result from using the biofuels instead of petroleum? Or did the authors of the attention-getting papers use obsolete data and unscientific methods to reach far-fetched and speculative conclusions?
We are too smart to answer those questions with a simple yes or no, and not nearly clever enough to boil down the very complicated truth to a sound bite. Instead, we have assembled the following reading materials for those of you who really want to know. This includes the recently released DOE’s Office of Biomass formal response to the reports.
We bought the papers from Science Magazine for $10 each, but had to promise not to distribute or post them to a website. You can buy them yourself here.
Below are some articles further discussing the findings of this report, as well as some responses from folks like Dr. Michael Wang, Dr. Bruce Dale and Dr. David Morris. The DOE Office of Biomass recently released a response, too.
• DOE Office of Biomass response
• New York Times article
• Washington Post article
• Response by Dr. Michael Wang of Argonne National Labs
• Response by Dr. Bruce Dale of Michigan State University
• Response by Dr. David Morris of Institute for Local Self-Reliance
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