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EPA Offers Grants to Fleets to Help Buy “Greener” Trucks
The Environmental Protection Agency last week launched a program that could give fleet owners up to 25% of a new vehicle’s cost for every diesel truck it replaces with a diesel-electric hybrid, liquefied natural gas or other alternate-fueled engine.
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AT&T to Deploy More Than 15,000 Alternative-Fuel Vehicles
Through an initiative that highlights the growing demand for cleaner domestic vehicles, AT&T today announced plans to invest up to $565 million as part of a long-term strategy to deploy more than 15,000 alternative-fuel vehicles over the next 10 years. AT&T expects to spend an estimated $350 million to purchase about 8,000 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) vehicles and approximately $215 million to begin replacing its passenger cars with alternative-fuel models.
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U.S. Gas Fields Go From Bust to Boom
CADDO PARISH, La. — A massive natural-gas discovery here in northern Louisiana heralds a big shift in the nation’s energy landscape. After an era of declining production, the U.S. is now swimming in natural gas.
Even conservative estimates suggest the Louisiana discovery — known as the Haynesville Shale, for the dense rock formation that contains the gas — could hold some 200 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. That’s the equivalent of 33 billion barrels of oil, or 18 years’ worth of current U.S. oil production. Some industry executives think the field could be several times that size.
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Insurers Offer Rewards for Going Green
Your insurance company may give you a break if you go green. The $16 trillion insurance industry has begun to address climate change with mandatory risk disclosures and more products to help reduce energy use. Insurers have begun to offer lower premiums on car, homeowner and property insurance for people who drive less, own hybrid cars or build green homes.
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U.S. Postal Service to Receive Alternative Fuel Vehicles Agency to Participate in Federal Fleet Upgrade Strategy
The U.S. Postal Service will conduct a one-for-one replacement of 6,500 vehicles with 1,000 E-85 ethanol-capable and 900 gasoline/electric hybrid vehicles to its delivery fleet, part of a vehicle purchase by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA).
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The World’s Cleanest Cars?
Earlier this month, as oil prices rose and car buyers ignored big trucks and SUVs in favor of small cars, Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens called on the U.S. government to chip away at the country’s dependence on foreign oil, in part, by having America’s cars run on compressed natural gas (CNG).
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Honda May Benefit From Proposed U.S. Tax-Credit Boost
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada yesterday offered legislation to boost tax incentives to as much as $12,500 for natural gas passenger vehicles, and extend them for a decade. Commercial trucks using CNG would receive as much as $64,000, according to a summary of the legislation.
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Hatch Introduces Bill to Spur Use of Natural Gas Vehicles
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ) were joined today by energy-independence advocate T. Boone Pickens to tout new legislation that would boost vehicles that run on clean natural gas.
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Trans Eco Energy Corp. has been awarded a GSA/FAS Schedule Contract
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