(October 5, 2017) — School buses travel over four billion miles each year, providing the safest transportation to and from school for more than 25 million American children every day. However, diesel exhaust from these buses has a negative impact on human health, especially for children who have a faster breathing rate than adults and whose lungs are not yet fully developed. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a school bus rebate program that is designed to encourage school bus fleet turnover to reduce harmful emissions from older, dirtier diesel vehicles so more children can ride buses with the cleanest emissions standards or buses that have been retrofitted to reduce emissions. The 2017 School Bus Rebate Program will provide more than $7 million to public...

(October 2, 2017) The Associated Press reports that environmentalists have recently sued the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to stop it from allowing oil and gas drilling on a vast stretch of federal land in Nevada. The Sierra Club and the Center for Biological Diversity allege BLM illegally failed to consider the potential consequences of hydraulic fracturing, which the groups assert could harm sage grouse habitat and contaminate fragile desert water sources, in addition to emitting climate-altering greenhouse gases. The suit has been filed in federal court in Reno, and seeks an order to force the bureau to rescind leases it sold in June on three parcels covering nine square miles. The groups are asking the court to forbid permits on an additional 103 parcels...

LESTER, PENN. (September 26, 2017) — Increased operating efficiency and decreased emissions have been two of the many benefits for an off-airport parking company operating buses fueled with propane autogas. Colonial Airport Parking runs around the clock, transporting travelers to and from Philadelphia International Airport. Since turning to propane, the thriving business has cut fuel costs by 32 percent and bus maintenance costs by 28.4 percent. Their current propane fleet will emit 730,000 fewer pounds of carbon dioxide over its lifetime. “By choosing propane, we’ve reduced our carbon footprint, improved our operating efficiency, better served our customers and prevented local residents from breathing in a lot of unnecessary pollution,” said John Groden, operations manager for Colonial Airport Parking. After researching various types of conventional and...

Washington, DC (September 22, 2017) — The National Propane Gas Association (NPGA) recently reported that five U.S. Senators wrote a pointed letter September 20, 2017 to Energy Secretary, Rick Perry, to urge the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) to “incorporate propane export volumes in EIA’s calculation of remaining days of supply to ensure an accurate accounting of domestic propane stocks.” Furthermore, the Senators argue that this change “will increase transparency and provide certainty” for the energy sector. NPGA had previously directly urged EIA to incorporate propane exports into its calculations because it gives a truer understanding of the status of supply in the U.S. NPGA's inventory trends report does so, and consistently shows more realistic days of supply numbers than EIA's. NPGA strongly believes that...