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Clean Transportation Must Start in Our Communities and Scale Across Illinois | Board Insights: Dean Alonistiotis
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 […]
Clean Transportation, Optimized: Metra Debuts North America’s First Battery Trainsets | Featured Fleet
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 […]
Clean Fuel Takes Flight: United, O’Hare, and Sustainable Aviation Fuel in Illinois | Featured Fleet
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 […]
A Commitment to Cleaner Transportation | Board Insights: Richard DeBoer
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 […]
Pushing Past B20: ARTCo Tests Year-Round B40+ Biodiesel on the Lower Mississippi | Featured Fleet
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 […]
Making Electric Transportation Work for More Families | Board Insights: Samantha Bingham
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 […]