The Illinois Alliance for Clean Transportation (IACT) recently held its Annual Meeting and Holiday Reception on December 11, 2024, at Maggiano’s Little Italy in Schaumburg, awarding multiple organizations for their work within sustainable transportation and crowning this year’s Clean Fuels Champion. Each December, IACT hosts a meeting to review the year’s highlights, discuss the upcoming […]
The Illinois Alliance for Clean Transportation (IACT) will be joining the Great River Road Collaboration project, which aims to unite ten Clean Cities & Communities coalitions along the Mississippi River’s Great River Road to establish an alternative fuel corridor that supports diverse clean fuel and vehicle technologies. The Great River Road is a National Scenic
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The city, fleet and facilities manager Sarah Mark recognized for operating low-emission vehicles. CHICAGO, Dec. 7, 2022 – The City of Moline, Illinois has been named a Clean Fuels Champion by the Illinois Alliance for Clean Transportation (IACT), a statewide nonprofit formerly known as Chicago Area Clean Cities Coalition. The Illinois alliance, whose mission is
Funding Will Increase Availability of Clean Fuels Across the Nation. WASHINGTON, Aug. 23, 2022 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is accepting applications for $100 million in grants to increase the sale and use of biofuels derived from U.S. agricultural products. USDA is making the funding available through
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The first-ever all-electric 2022 BMW i4 All-Electric Gran Coupe and 2022 BMW iX Sports Activity Vehicle will be featured at Chicago Area Clean Cities’ Green Drives Conference & Expo on Tuesday, May 3, in Naperville, Illinois. More than 30 environmentally vehicles – from all-electric passenger vehicles to biodiesel-powered work trucks and Class 8 trucks powered by low-emissions
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Among the up to 40 environmentally friendly vehicles at our Green Drives Conference & Expo on May 3 will be the DANNAR Mobile Power Station, which is a unique EV, unlike anything on the market today. The off-road, zero-emission vehicle functions in two primary ways. First, the MPS is a versatile off-road work vehicle, which boasts modular
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CHICAGO, April 22, 2021 – ComEd, a unit of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation (NASDAQ: EXC), was named a “Clean Fuels Champion” today by Chicago Area Clean Cities (CACC), a nonprofit coalition whose mission is to advance the energy, economic, and environmental security of the U.S. by supporting the reduction of petroleum consumption. ComEd received the award
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Our coalition is undertaking a study regarding alternative fuel stations along interstates in Northeastern Illinois. We need help from fleets and other stakeholders to assist in establishing criteria for future fueling station sites. We hope to capture and compile ideas related to where and why such stations might be considered going forward, ideally aligning with
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CHICAGO, May 12, 2020 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced the upcoming Higher Blends Infrastructure Incentive Program (HBIIP). The purpose of this program is to provide grant funds to encourage private investment and expand the availability of higher blends of ethanol, and biodiesel. Providing grant funds to cover a portion of the cost
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CHICAGO, May 8, 2020 – Cleaner air could help us in our defense against the COVID-19 virus. A recent study by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health[1] concluded that there is a significant correlation between high concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) emissions from cars and increased vulnerability of citizens contracting the COVID-19
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