For too long, conversations about climate change and clean transportation have been framed as choices between protecting the environment and growing our economy. My experience working in government and alongside community, business, labor, and environmental leaders has shown me that the strongest policies can do both. Clean transportation is a good example. In my work
There is a simple reason public transit sits at the heart of cleaner transportation: every full train is a few hundred cars not on the road. A single Metra run can replace hundreds of individual commutes, and with them, the fuel burned and the emissions released by each one. Transit is already clean transportation; it
Most of the clean-transportation conversation happens at ground level—trucks, buses, and cars. But some of the hardest emissions to eliminate are the ones that leave the ground. You cannot put a battery big enough to cross an ocean on a commercial jet, and you will not be able to anytime soon. For aviation, the most
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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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
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 Quietest Clean Transportation Story in Illinois Is Happening at the Airport Two things are about to happen in Illinois that most clean transportation advocates are not tracking. In the south suburbs, Amazon is setting up drone delivery hubs in Markham and Matteson, with roughly 15 aircraft per site, flying packages up to five pounds
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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
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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As fleets continue exploring ways to reduce emissions while maintaining reliable operations, two renewable alternatives to petroleum diesel are receiving increased attention: biodiesel and renewable diesel. Although the fuels have similar names and can be produced from many of the same renewable feedstocks, they are distinct products with unique characteristics. Understanding these differences can help