On Tuesday, Clean Energy Fuels and Mansfield Energy Corp. announced a strategic partnership to co-market their services. Mansfield is the largest “behind the gate” fuel provider in the country, selling 3.5 billion gallons of fuel to 3,500 customers annually at 18,000 fueling locations. Mansfield Gas Equipment Systems has ongoing CNG service and operations contracts with …

Next Tuesday, May 14 at 10:00 a.m., the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold the first in a series of three public listening sessions to gather information from stakeholders with an interest in ensuring federal policy evolves to take into account the new supplies of natural gas. The sessions will be held in …

The top two tax writers on Capitol Hill want to overhaul the federal tax code for the first time since 1986, and they are soliciting help from the public to help get it done. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) launched a website Thursday …

Governor Tom Corbett announced that Pennsylvania will invest $9.6 million in 13 alternative energy projects across 11 counties. The projects were approved by the Commonwealth Financing Authority (CFA) through the Alternative and Clean Energy Program (ACE). Among the approved projects is PMF Industries, Inc., a precision metal forming manufacturer, which will receive a $250,000 ACE …

On Monday, the Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA) in Columbus began operation of its first 30 new CNG buses. The Authority plans to buy about 30 each year as it phases out diesel coaches, and it replace all the diesel buses with CNG buses in 12 years. COTA has more than 320 buses. The Authority …

Community Waste Disposal (CWD), a private waste management company in North Texas, has deployed four new CNG trucks. This is CWD’s first deployment of what will be a complete conversion of its fleet to CNG. The trucks were unveiled at a well attended public ceremony held in the City of Corinth, where the trucks will …

On behalf of the Clean Vehicle Education Foundation (CVEF), Stephe Yborra once again presented the case for NGVs and related fueling infrastructure at two half-day “mini-workshops” co-hosted by NYSERDA and local New York Clean Cities Coalitions. Thursday’s workshop at the Town Hall in Eastchester, New York, was hosted by the Empire Clean Cities Coalition, while …

The Clean Vehicle Education Foundation (CVEF) and NGVAmerica participated in the American Public Transportation Association (APTA)-hosted Annual Bus & ParaTransit Conference & Expo in Indianapolis earlier this week. At Monday’s Transit Natural Gas Coalition (TNGC) meeting, CVEF’s Director of Technology John Dimmick provided an update on the re-energized DOE-funded Transit Users Group (TUG), outlining TUG’s …

This week, Clean Energy Fuels reported sales for Q1 2013 totaled 49.9 million gallons, a 14 percent increase over last year’s Q1 sales of 43.7 million gallons. “Significant progress has taken place over the last few months in long-haul trucking’s transition to natural gas,” stated Andrew Littlefair, Clean Energy’s President and CEO. “The new 12-liter …

The Cotton Drilling Co. recently opened a CNG fueling station in Sheridan, New York—the only one in Chautauqua County supplied with local gas. Cotton Drilling owns several hundred natural gas wells throughout the county, and it will supply the station with its own gas, which will be transported to the station by the local gas …

As reported in the Detroit News, Vehicle Production Group LLC —the startup automaker building handicap-accessible CNG vehicles that won $50 million in Energy Department loans—has suspended production and laid off nearly all its 100 Michigan employees, the company’s former CEO said Tuesday. Vehicle Production Group, developer of the wheelchair-accessible MV-1, in October relocated its headquarters …

On Monday, the Interlake Steamship Company, a shipper of bulk products throughout the Great Lakes region, announced that it has reached an agreement in principle with Shell to supply LNG to support Interlake’s conversion of its vessels to LNG as the main propulsion fuel. When converted, these ships are expected to be the first LNG-powered …