Just in time for the current back-to-school season, a $50 million program is getting under way in Texas to help school districts add new, clean fuel propane buses to their pupil transportation fleets. And that program is expected to be just the start of a major national effort to clean up school buses, spurred by new legislation and the Environmental Protection Agency’s concerns about clean air and children’s health.
Read More A lean-burning, 74-horsepower propane engine developed by engineers at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, demonstrates a low-emissions alternative to diesel power.
Read More Tax credits and grants to encourage propane use have cleared both houses of Congress. A conference committee is trying to resolve differences between the Energy Policy Act of 2002 the Senate passed recently and a different version the House passed last summer.
Read More New federal regulations aimed at reducing air pollution are likely to have a significant impact on propane-fueled forklifts, including large reductions in per-unit fuel consumption.
Read More A new business plan for the Propane Vehicle Council could help move the needle in the exasperating motor fuel market.
Read More The Propane Promotion Consortium is detouring away from Detroit in search of a way to boost sputtering propane vehicle sales nationwide.
Read More Going through the annual pains of writing your check to the IRS? Look forward and cheer up. It might not be so bad for propane users in the future.
Read More Through the Propane Education & Research Council, $472,000 in engine certification research has been invested by the propane industry since 1999.
Read More After years of hobbling along on temporary fixes, representatives from the propane industry and the EPA are close to hammering out a resolution to EPA’s demand for cleaner vehicle emissions from aftermarket conversions.
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