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Governor's Signature Represents Huge Win for Heavy-Duty Natural Gas Vehicles

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has signed into law H.B.1324, a bill that creates a tax credit for the deployment of heavy-duty natural gas vehicles (NGVs) that exceed 33,000 lbs. GVWR, among other measures.  Read More

Posted 6 days ago

Clean Energy, Mansfield Team up for Natural Gas Fueling

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. and Mansfield Energy Corp. announced a strategic partnership to offer customers what they say will be the most comprehensive solution in the compressed natural gas fuel industry.  Read More

Posted 11 days ago

Florida Legislature approves incentives for natural gas vehicles

The Florida House passed HB 579 to promote the use of natural gas fuels in Florida.  Read More

Posted 13 days ago

AT&T; to Ryder Driven to Natural Gas Vehicles as Oil Soars

For AT&T; Inc. (T), the decision to introduce natural gas vehicles to the company’s fleet in 2008 proved well-timed, as the price gap between gas and diesel soared to an all-time high that summer.  Read More

Posted 14 days ago

Modern Transportation Launches the Era of 12-liter, Natural Gas Powered Trucking: Converts Fleet to Serve Mission Critical Owens Corning Route

Modern Transportation Launches the Era of 12-liter, Natural Gas Powered Trucking: Converts Fleet to Serve Mission Critical Owens Corning Route  Read More

Posted 24 days ago

Report Finds More Natural Gas Vehicles Would Not Raise Natural Gas Prices

A new study from the American Clean Skies Foundation (ACSF) finds that a transition to natural gas-fueled heavy- and light-duty vehicles over the next decade will have a minimal impact on natural gas prices.  Read More

Posted 26 days ago

Natural Gas Becomes a Fuel for the Long Haul

The natural gas boom has already upended the American power industry, displacing coal and bringing consumers cheaper electricity. Now the trucking industry, with its millions of 18-wheelers moving products like potato chips, underarm deodorant and copy paper around the country, is taking a leap forward in switching from petroleum to cleaner-burning natural gas.  Read More

Posted 28 days ago

Mexico’s Tequila State Launches CNG Fleet and Filling Station

The Mexican State of Jalisco, internationally acknowledged as the home of the alcoholic beverage Tequila, is now also home to a new Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) filling station and the State’s first fleet of CNG buses  Read More

Posted 4 weeks ago

Celebrating California's First 'Trash Gas' Closed-loop, Landfill Fueling Station

Fleet Powered by Near-Zero Carbon Fuel Reduces Greenhouse Gases on I-580 Corridor and the East Bay  Read More

Posted 4 weeks ago

Gemini Transport buys 50 Cascadia 113 CNG-fueled daycab tractors

Gemini Motor Transport LLC has purchased up to 50 new Freightliner Cascadia 113 natural gas-fueled daycab tractors for hauling fuel to the more than 300 Love’s Travel Stops throughout the United States.  Read More

Posted 5 weeks ago