Refuse Truck Powered by Clean-Burning Natural Gas Fuel Handles Trash Collection Duties at July 7 Live Earth New York Concert Eve
July 06 2007 - 7:30AM
Business Wire
One very special participant in the July 7 Live Earth New York
Concert at the Meadowlands Sports Complex will dramatically
demonstrate an excellent way to fight climate change. Powered by
clean-burning, environmentally-friendly compressed natural gas
(CNG) fuel, an Interstate Waste Services Co., Inc. demonstration
truck will handle trash collection duties at the event. �Putting
trucks like these into operation in the New York area and all
across the country is one of the best strategies available today
for reducing air pollution and cutting greenhouse gases,� said
Joanna Underwood, President of Energy Vision, a national
environmental organization. �I might say that this refuse truck is
the rock star of the refuse industry!� she said. The Live Earth
Concert demonstration vehicle, the world�s cleanest heavy-duty
refuse collection truck, has been provided to Interstate Waste by
Clean Energy (NASDAQ:CLNE), North America�s leader in clean
transportation, and Hallahan Truck Sales, Holtsville, NY-based
natural gas Autocar refuse truck dealer. Clean Energy and Hallahan
have partnered to supply natural gas-powered refuse trucks and
companion fueling services to New York area refuse fleets. Based in
Sloatsburg, NY, Interstate Waste Services provides solid waste and
recycling services within Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey.
The demo truck deployed at the Live Earth Concert, like the almost
2,000 other natural gas garbage trucks now operating across the
U.S., reduces greenhouse gas emissions by about 11 to 23 percent
compared to diesel, according to a study of natural gas engines
just completed for the California Air Resources Board. Why Refuse
Trucks Matter The 136,000 refuse trucks operating in the U.S. burn
approximately 1.2 billion gallons of diesel fuel a year, releasing
almost 27 billion pounds of the greenhouse gas, CO2. Every gallon
of diesel fuel they burn emits more than 22 pounds of CO2. In
addition to contributing to global climate change, diesel-fueled
trash trucks are one of the most concentrated sources of
health-threatening air pollution in virtually all cities. �Unlike
many other trucks or buses, refuse trucks travel every residential
street � stopping and starting and pouring their emissions onto
virtually every door step," Underwood said. Diesel emissions are a
well-known trigger of asthma attacks and are also linked to rising
cancer rates. Natural Gas Trucks: Fighting Climate Change in the
Near and Long Terms Replacing old diesel refuse trucks with the new
fully-operational natural gas models offers the chance to achieve
multiple benefits, not just in the near term but also in the long
term. Their use helps address severe pollution and greenhouse gas
challenges today, according to Underwood. �But natural gas trucks
also help pave the way toward better and better fuel options in the
future. The sophisticated natural gas engine can take increasing
advantage of clean renewable bio-methane fuel, which is beginning
to be produced from the greenhouse gases that now escape from the
many thousands of landfills, sewage plants and agricultural waste
sources across the country. In the longer term, they form a bridge
to the era of hydrogen-fueled vehicles.� Energy Vision is a New
York-based, national non-profit organization that analyzes and
promotes ways to make a swift transition to pollution-free
renewable energy sources, and to the clean, petroleum-free
transportation fuels of the future. Its Associates have published
Greening Garbage Trucks: Volumes I and II, on trends in alternative
fuels use in the refuse truck sector. For more information, see
www.energy-vision.org.
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