PUBLICATIONS/PRESS RELEASES
QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER
The VSCCC publishes a quarterly newsletter to keep stakeholders and local leaders aware of the AFV activities and issues locally and nationally. Click on the links below to view our newsletter:
July 2003 (link to doc. Or pdf.)
November 2003 (link to doc. Or pdf)
ANNUAL UPDATES
At the Annual meeting the Coordinator highlights the prior year’s successes and outlines the upcoming year. Click on the link to view our annual updates.
FY 2003 (link to ppt.)
PRESS RELEASES
Recent news releases by the VSCCC
Valley Fleets Lead the Way- October 2002
Brown Cloud Be Gone- April 2003
VSCCC National Partner Awards- May 2003
Hybrid Article
Leg Event Article
Maricopa County’s Major Fleets Silently Lead the Way to Cleaner Air
Through the Use of Clean Burning Fuels
With little fanfare or recognition, key vehicle fleets in Maricopa County have become a driving force in cleaning the Valley’s air and securing America’s energy future. These major fleets represent an impressive segment of area wide fuel consumers transitioning to cleaner burning fuels. It is projected that these fleets are now displacing over 15 million gallons of petroleum per year with clean burning alternative fuels.
Parallel to these solid results, the Valley of the Sun Clean Cities Coalition is rising from the ashes. A progressive group of business and government managers has revitalized the local chapter of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Clean Cities Program, which lost momentum following the failed Arizona alternative fuel incentive program. Later this year, the coalition will be submitting required documents to DOE to reaffirm its commitment to the program for another five years.
Currently, some 30 organizations have signed on as stakeholders to the revitalized Clean Cities Coalition. The coalition’s role is to assist coordination of regional clean fuel efforts and to support further development of target alternative fuel markets through education, training, and communications.
“It should be positively recognized that SuperShuttle and the taxi companies at the airport, hundreds of Valley Metro buses, hundreds of utility and thousands of government vehicles all run on clean fuels like natural gas, propane, and biodiesel.” Mark Riley, the coalition’s coordinator stated. “Their commitments have significantly reduced air pollution, supported national energy security goals, and enhanced the quality of life here in the Valley.”
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“Brown Cloud” Be Gone:
Valley Remains a Leader in Clean, Alternative Fuel Use
Avondale, AZ (April 26, 2003)
In conjunction with Valley Forward’s EarthFest Clean-up Day at Coldwater Park in Avondale, the Valley of the Sun Clean Cities Coalition displayed vehicles that run on clean, alternative fuels. The vehicles, provided by Valley Metro, SRP, APS, Rockland Materials, Deer Valley School District, Southwest Gas, SuperShuttle, Total Transit, and the cities of Scottsdale and Phoenix, represented vehicle fleets that together displace over 10 million gallons of petroleum annually and have significantly less tail-pipe emissions than conventionally-fueled vehicles.
The Valley of the Sun Clean Cities Coalition is a progressive group of business and government stakeholders striving to clean the environment and reduce America’s reliance on foreign petroleum through increased use of clean, domestically-produced fuels like natural gas, propane, biodiesel, and hydrogen. This coalition is part of broader national network of groups sponsored by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Clean Cities Program. Both Valley Metro’s and Sky Harbor Airport’s alternative fuel efforts will be recognized in mid-May at the National Clean Cities Conference in Palm Springs.
Currently, some 75 organizations have signed on as stakeholders to the revitalized Clean Cities Coalition. The coalition’s role is to assist coordination of regional clean fuel efforts and to support further development of target alternative fuel markets through education, training, and communications.
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Valley Recognized For Leadership with Clean Fuels
June 3, 2003-- In March, the Valley of the Sun Clean Cities Coalition nominated three prominent Valley organizations-- Valley Metro, Sky Harbor Airport, and Rockland Materials-- for the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Clean Cities National Partner Award. The nominated organizations have made significant commitments to the use of clean, “American” fuels. All three received the award at the 9th Annual National Clean Cities Conference in Palm Springs, CA on May 21, 2003.
Valley Metro operates 540+ buses on natural gas and displaces over 7 million gallons of diesel fuel annually. Sky Harbor Airport has instituted proactive policy that required shared-ride vans, taxicabs, and inter-terminal shuttles to operate on natural gas, as well as, has the longest running public/private partnership with a natural gas fuel provider, Clean Energy, in the US. Rockland Materials displaces over 1 million gallons of diesel fuel with biodiesel annually. This major rock products company has personally financed the added expense for using this fuel.
The Valley of the Sun took home three of the eight National Partner Awards given by the DOE Clean Cities Program this year. “Many focus on the negativity of the alternative fuel incentive program of 2000 and forget about the significant success and resultant cleaner air alternative fuel has brought to the region,” says Mark Riley, the Coalition’s coordinator. “It is time to recognize those successes. These awards are a good start.”
The Valley of the Sun Clean Cities Coalition is a progressive non-profit consisting of 75 business and government stakeholders striving to clean the environment and reduce America’s reliance on foreign petroleum through increased use of clean, domestically-produced fuels like natural gas, propane, biodiesel, and hydrogen. The coalition’s role is to assist coordination of regional clean fuel efforts and to support further development of target alternative fuel markets through education, training, and communications. This coalition is part of broader national network of groups sponsored by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Clean Cities Program.
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