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Environment & Quality of Life
Clean Energy. Clean Air. Alternative Vehicles
Reducing air pollution & fueling the transition to clean, alternative vehicles
Natural gas is the cleanest major source of energy used in the United States today – one that can improve air quality today as it replaces higher-emitting fuels, while providing an important bridge to the most promising renewable technologies of the future.
"Natural gas is the cleanest burning fossil fuel. It produces less emissions and pollutants than either coal or oil."
Currently, the private and public sectors have been introducing cleaner natural gas-powered buses, taxis and other vehicles – and pushing to build natural gas fueling stations for more widespread use of these alternative-fuel vehicles. In Ventura County, for instance, natural gas buses are already being used. And Los Angeles County has the largest natural gas fleet in the country.
Increasing use of natural gas as fuel for buses, trucks and cars is important to improving our environment and public health because emissions from gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles foul the air we breathe – causing illnesses such as asthma and other lung problems, especially in children and the elderly. So shifting to cleaner-burning natural gas vehicles would start reducing air pollution – and its resulting health problems – immediately.
But currently, California's limited natural gas supplies are consumed by the power plants that produce about half the state's electricity.
So by supplying safe, clean natural gas locally, Clearwater Port makes it easier and more affordable for businesses and governments in Ventura County to shift from dirtier gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles to cleaner burning natural gas alternative vehicles.
With Clearwater Port supplying additional natural gas, Ventura County and California could lead the transition to a cleaner, healthier future.
Clean-burning natural gas vehicles travel our streets every day and more of them will mean cleaner air for all of us.
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The Campaign to Dump Dirty Diesel
"NRDC has helped show that compressed natural gas is an affordable, cleaner alternative fuel for buses and some trucks; thousands of these vehicles are now on the roads… The diesel engines used on America's farms, construction sites, ports, airports and for other "non-road" uses are some of the dirtiest diesels anywhere, spewing out more asthma-attack-inducing soot particles than all of the nation's buses and trucks combined. But a clean solution is in sight: the same advances in fuel and engine design that work for buses and trucks should work for heavy diesel equipment, too. In some cases, natural gas may even provide the cleanest alternative — cutting toxic and other emissions below what is currently possible with today's diesel fuel and engines."
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