Speaking at the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) convention in Las Vegas, Chrysler-Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne emphasized on compressed natural gas (CNG) cars as part of the solution.
   
  EQT Corporation announced that the EQT Foundation awarded more than $900.000 in grants to five Pittsburgh area non-profit organizations to support community programming and promote the use of Natural Gas Vehicles (NGVs).
 
  Caddo Parish Sheriff Steve Prator says he hopes to save money and help the environment by converting 13 vehicles to use cleaner-burning compressed natural gas (CNG) as well as gasoline.
   
  A compressed natural gas (CNG) Honda Civic sedan was added to the university vehicle fleet by Kirby Kemper, the Robert O. Lawton Professor of Physics and vice president for Research at Florida State.
 
  As part of its continued commitment to sustainable practices, US Foods announced that its Oklahoma City Division is using five new trucks that run on compressed natural gas.
   
  Five thousand and counting. That's the newly-announced tally of alternative-fuel vehicles placed on U.S. roads by AT&T since the company embarked on a 10- year commitment of up to $565 million to deploy approximately 15.000 alternative fuel vehicles.
 
   
       
   
       
 
     
 
  State Sen. John Yudichak and state Reps. Mike Carroll and Eddie Day Pashinski joined officials from Plains Township, the state Department of Environmental Protection and UGI Utilities to unveil the new $181.811 green truck.
   
  President Barack Obama unveiled a series of energy initiatives to move America's heavy duty and fleet vehicles to domestic natural gas as a transportation fuel, away from OPEC oil/diesel/gasoline.
 
  FedEx chief Frederick W. Smith anticipated FedEx would be among trucking company operators to experiment with natural gas-powered long-haul trucks, because of stepped-up domestic production.
   
  Dane County, Wisconsin, has received the federal Environmental Protection Agency's 2011 LMOP Project of the Year Award for its first-in-the-state efforts to fuel county vehicles with cheaper, cleaner-burning compressed natural gas.
 
  Rio Hondo College students in Whittier, California, will have an additional way to travel up the campus' steep hillside. Another bus has been added to the college's transportation fleet.
   
  Norwich Public Utilities hopes to build its second alternative natural gas fueling station at the former River Run Nursery property on Otrobando Avenue and purchase 16 alternative-fuel vehicles - if the utility receives a nearly $2.1 million grant.
 
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