Clean Cities Hits Major Petroleum-Reduction Milestone
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Clean Cities Hits Major Petroleum-Reduction Milestone
Louisiana Clean Fuels contributes to national program's success in cutting America’s petroleum use by one billion gallons in one year
The U.S. Department of Energy's Clean Cities program and its nearly 100 coalitions across the nation reached a major petroleum-reduction milestone—reducing one billion gallons in 2013 alone! This keeps the Clean Cities program on track to meet its ambitious petroleum-reduction goal of 2.5 billion gallons a year by 2020.
DOE launched the national program in 1993, and Louisiana Clean Fuels has been a key contributor to the program's mission in Louisiana since its founding in 2000. Louisiana Clean Fuels has coordinated several alternative fuel projects, hosted countless workshops and celebrations and expanded its territory to include 56 parishes. With the addition of the parishes covered by our sister organization, Southeast Louisiana Clean Fuel Partnership, the entire state of Louisiana is covered by Clean Cities. Louisiana Clean Fuels is supported in part by the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources.
Reducing America’s oil dependency and our transportation system’s environmental footprint are at the heart of Clean Cities’ efforts. Nationwide, Clean Cities and its stakeholders prevented the production of 7.5 million tons of greenhouse gases in 2013. This is equivalent to removing more than 1.5 million cars from the road. Louisiana Clean Fuels and its stakeholders have led the charge in our 56 parishes saving 982,714 gallons of petroleum in 2013 alone.
“From 15 million gallons in its first year to a cumulative 6.4 billion through 2013, Clean Cities is shifting transportation away from petroleum—one vehicle, fleet, and community at a time,” said Clean Cities National Director Dennis Smith. The collaborations and relationships that local coalitions create are key to our national success.”
The coalitions’ local knowledge, combined with the objective, reliable technical expertise of the Energy Department and its national laboratories, make Clean Cities unique in its ability to incite change.
“We are proud that Louisiana Clean Fuels is a part of this large, nation-wide movement toward advancing our nation’s environmental, economic and energy security.” Ann Shaneyfelt, Executive Director of Louisiana Clean Fuels said. “We’re thrilled about this milestone, and we’ll keep doing our part in Louisiana to reach that 2020 national goal.”
A national network of Clean Cities coalitions brings together stakeholders in the public and private sectors to deploy alternative and renewable fuels, idle-reduction measures, fuel economy improvements, and new transportation technologies as they emerge.
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