Clean Cities Coalition Network

The Clean Cities Coalition Network is a coordinated group of nearly 100 coalitions in the United States working in communities across the country to advance affordable, domestic transportation fuels, energy efficient mobility systems, and other fuel-saving technologies and practices.

U.S. DOE Clean Cities coalitions in early 2020.

Indiana

The State of Indiana contains two designated Clean Cities coalitions: Greater Indiana Clean Cities and South Shore Clean Cities. Greater Indiana Clean Cities serves the following Indiana counties: Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Cass, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Crawford, Daviess, Dearborn, Decatur, Delaware, Dubois, Fayette, Floyd, Fountain, Franklin, Gibson, Grant, Greene, Hamilton, Hancock, Harrison, Hendricks, Henry, Howard, Huntington, Jackson, Jay, Jefferson, Jennings, Johnson, Knox, Lawrence, Madison, Marion, Martin, Miami, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Ohio, Orange, Owen, Parke, Perry, Pike, Posey, Putnam, Randolph, Ripley, Rush, Scott, Shelby, Spencer, Sullivan, Switzerland, Tippecanoe, Tipton, Union, Vanderburgh, Vermillion, Vigo, Wabash, Warren, Warrick, Washington, Wayne, Wells, White.

Greater Indiana News:

Indiana Soybean Alliance and Indiana Corn Marketing Council find a successful relationship in Greater Indiana

Greater Indiana Clean Cities Meets With Congress

Greater Indiana Clean Cities Names Clean Fleet Award Winners

South Shore Clean Cities serves northern Indiana: the eighteen counties, Benton, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Jasper, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Lake, LaPorte, Marshall, Newton, Noble, Porter, Pulaski, St. Joseph, Starke, Steuben and Whitley.

September 6, 2011 - Environmentalist touts Yellowstone's eco success story

September 20, 2011- South Shore Clean Cities award electric vehicles to northern Indiana cities.

October 16, 2011 - All charged up, but nowhere to plug

December 16, 2011 - Tube City IMS Brings Lean and Green Locomotive to northwest Indiana

Maryland

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority. Better known as simply "Metro," the authority provides transit services to the metropolitan area in and around Washington, D.C. The authority has a fleet of 1,500 buses, including 74 hybrid electric buses and Metro plans to have nearly 500 more hybrid-electric buses by 2012. Vice Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, who last year committed to convert the entire Maryland Transit Administration bus fleet to hybrid-electric buses by 2014. Maryland has already accelerated its purchase of hybrid-electric buses with the help of Recovery Act funds (Clean Cities).^[1]

 

The logos for the Tennessee Clean Cities Programs, as well as some other logos for projects or initiatives that these coalitions operate.

Tennessee Clean Fuels

The state of Tennessee has two designated Clean Cities coalitions: the East Tennessee Clean Fuels Coalition and the Middle-West Tennessee Clean Fuels Coalition. They sometimes operate under the shared name "Tennessee Clean Fuels". Both were designated in 2004, and collectively serve the entire state.

Many fleets in Tennessee use alternative fuels like the Great Smoky Mountains National Park; cities like Knoxville, Nashville, Sevierville and Kingsport; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; utilities and airports; mass transit agencies; and large international companies like UPS and Waste Management.

The East Tennessee coalition - ETCleanFuels - has started numerous projects and initiatives over the years. Here are a few examples:

• The Fuels Fix is website and monthly email service that is "Clean Cities stories and alternative fuel news." Each month, other Clean Cities coalitions from around the country provide articles and then those articles are sent to email subscribers.
• The I-75 Green Corridor Project was a project that ETCleanFuels led from 2009-2015 that installed 40 biofuel pumps along I-75 to build it into "the longest biofuels corridor on the planet." Both ethanol E-85 and biodiesel B-20 pumps were installed during the project.
• Tennessee Green Fleets is a fleet certification program that offers fleets or any type that are reducing their petroleum use and increasingly using alternative fuels and reducing greenhouse gas emissions a way to get recognized for their efforts. Fleets have to meet criteria and submit data to get certified.
• Drive Electric Tennessee, or DriveElectricTN, is a statewide program that is a collaboration of many partners in Tennessee including Tennessee Valley Authority, the TDEC Office of Energy Programs, and many other stakeholders. The partnership has developed an "EV Roadmap" for the state and as of 2020 is building out working groups that will tackle issues like awareness, infrastructure, policies and programs, and innovation to help drive electric vehicle (EV) adoption across the state.

Wisconsin

The state of Wisconsin has one Clean City coalition designated in 1994 called Wisconsin Clean Cities.

Empire Clean Cities

Empire Clean Cities is the Clean Cities coalition for New York City & the Lower Hudson Valley (Westchester, Rockland, & Putnam Counties). ECC was incorporated in 2007 and was formerly known as New York City & Lower Hudson Valley Clean Cities.

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

On 2009 Earth Day, Vice President Joe Biden announced the availability of $300 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for state and local governments and transit authorities to expand the nation's fleet of clean, sustainable vehicles and the fueling infrastructure necessary to support them. The Clean Cities Alternative Fuel and Advanced Technology Vehicles Pilot Program supported 25 cost-share projects involving alternative fuels or advanced vehicles in collaboration with 50 Clean Cities coalitions and 700 stakeholders who provided an additional $500 million in matching funds. Eligible technologies included a number of different light- and heavy-duty vehicles, including hybrid, plug-in hybrid electric, hydraulic hybrid, electric, fuel cell, and compressed natural gas vehicles. In addition, projects supported refueling infrastructure for alternative fuels, including biofuels and natural gas. Other efforts eligible for funds included public awareness campaigns and training programs on alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles and infrastructure. The program required a 50% cost share from participants.^[1]

These projects established 1,380 alternative fueling stations and put more than 9,000 alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles on the road while supporting U.S. energy independence and contributing to regional economic development. The Clean Cities Coalition Network compiled a report, Designing a Successful Transportation Project: Lessons Learned from the Clean Cities American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Projects, summarizing high-level project design and administrative considerations for conducting a successful transportation project.

Criticism

In 2009, the California Cars Initiative stated that the Clean Cities American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Project Awards included a scattering of funding for electrification and charging stations, but most of it was for carbon-based liquid fuels or non-pluggable hybrids.^[2] Clean Cities federal funding in 2010-2011 was set up with a majority of the funding favoring plug-in EVs and HEVs. However, the amount of funding and focus of that funding ebbs and flows between the alternative fuels over time due to advances in technology and interest in those fuels. CNG and propane were more popular in the early 2000s, the biofuels ethanol and biodiesel took center stage in the mid-2000s.

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded nearly $460 million through its funding opportunities for hundreds of projects across the country to implement alternative fuels and energy-efficient vehicle technologies. These awards leveraged almost $1.2 billion more in matching funds and in-kind contributions from the private and public sector. These project awards contribute to advancing affordable, domestic transportation fuels and fuel-saving technologies and practices.

Funded projects have included:

• Understanding transportation electrification in public and private fleets.
• Integrating alternative fuel vehicles and refueling infrastructure in urban and rural communities.
• Implementing living lab projects that demonstrate and assess new mobility solutions that maximize the return on investment to mobility systems in terms of time, cost, energy, and opportunity.
• Developing fueling and charging stations along busy transportation corridors.
• Providing resiliency planning through diversified vehicle and fueling options.
• Securing real-world data on total cost of ownership for alternative fuels.

See also

• EPA Sustainability
• Greenhouse gas emissions by the United States
• Nashville Auto Diesel College
• National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium
• Ohio Technical College
• Phase-out of fossil fuel vehicles
• Southeast Propane Autogas Development Program
• Tarrant County College
• Traviss Career Center
• York Technical College
• Zero-emission zone

References

1. DOE Offers $300 Million in Recovery Act Funds for Clean Cities Program. Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy News, April 29, 2009
2. The Ultimate Posting on Plug-In Hybrid Developments: Clip & Save. CalCars, September 22, 2009

External links

• Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE) News
• EERE News: Clean Cities