Whitney

Whitney began working with IACT in 2023. With a degree in English and a minor in Art, Whitney has worked as both a newspaper reporter and a digital marketing and events manager, bringing 6 years of marketing and 8 years of content creation experience to IACT. Whitney is passionate about nature and preserving the environment, including solutions to cleaner air and greater sustainability, and is a former Chicago resident.

A Commitment to Cleaner Transportation | Board Insights: Richard DeBoer

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I bring to the Board a 50-year career with Ozinga, primarily focused on the heavy-duty trucking industry. Throughout my career, I have witnessed significant changes in trucking technology and fuel sources, from gasoline-powered vehicles to diesel and, more recently, alternative fuels. Over the past 15 years, alternative fuels have become an increasingly important part of

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Pushing Past B20: ARTCo Tests Year-Round B40+ Biodiesel on the Lower Mississippi | Featured Fleet

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When Illinois fleets talk about “higher blends” of biodiesel, most conversations top out around B20, the threshold most engine warranties comfortably support and the level that earns a fleet entry into the B20 Club of Illinois. American River Transportation Company (ARTCo), a wholly owned subsidiary of Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), has spent the last two

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The Number Illinois Felt First: Illinois Diesel Prices and the Case for Fuel Diversification | Fuel for Thought – From the Chair

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If you run trucks in Illinois, you didn’t need a headline to tell you what happened this month, you saw it at the pump. In the week of September 21, on-highway diesel across the Midwest averaged $6.68 a gallon, higher than the $6.53 national figure making news and up more than forty cents in a

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Making Electric Transportation Work for More Families | Board Insights: Samantha Bingham

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For most of my career, clean transportation has been both my profession and something I have tried to practice in my own life. I spent 18 years leading the Chicago Area Clean Cities coalition, now the Illinois Alliance for Clean Transportation, while also serving as the City of Chicago‘s Clean Transportation Program Director. Over those

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The Fuel Illinois Makes and Ships Somewhere Else: September 2026 | Fuel for Thought – From the Chair

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In this month’s Board Insights, Samantha Bingham brings clean transportation home. In “Making Electric Transportation Work for More Families,” she describes how her family’s needs changed and what it took to make a battery-electric car and a plug-in hybrid minivan work for them. For about a year, that meant relying entirely on public charging, with

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Megawatt Charging Arrives: What MCS Means for Illinois Freight Corridors | Innovation Lane

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When a Class 8 driver pulls off I-80 for a federally mandated 30-minute break, the truck is doing nothing productive. That short window, repeated millions of times a year across the U.S. freight network, is exactly what the Megawatt Charging System (MCS) is engineered around. After roughly eight years of development inside CharIN’s MCS Task

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Matching the Fuel to the Mission: August 2027 | Fuel for Thought – From the Chair

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This month’s newsletter looks at electrification from two angles. In Innovation Lane, we finally get to the Megawatt Charging System (MCS), the new standard that lets a Class 8 electric truck recharge during a driver’s 30-minute rest break, with hardware already in the ground in California and corridor sites announced along I-5 and I-10. In

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The Connected Future of Electric Transportation | Board Insights: Tim Milburn

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Introducing Tim Milburn — Founding Partner of Green Ways 2Go Since 2011, Tim has been active in clean transportation projects and consulting work, as a Partner at Green Ways 2Go. Project activities started with developing and deploying alternative fuel projects, including turnkey projects for EV charging, compressed natural gas, and propane autogas. Since 2016, most

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