Join South Shore Clean Cities & Wisconsin Clean Cities for the 2022 Winter Webinar Series! The series kicks off with the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Webinar on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Learn how hydrogen and fuel cell technologies are adding to the sustainable transportation mix. Hear from companies and organizations working to advance the adoption of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies and what trends to expect in 2022. Scheduled speakers include Ted Barnes, Director – Transportation Group, Gas Technology Institute; Rob Harvey, Director – Energy Infrastructure for Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Technologies, Cummins, Inc. & Frank Wolak, President & CEO, Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association. The Webinar is free, but registration is required. Register here

Wisconsin Clean Cities is seeking redesignation as a U.S. Department of Energy Clean Cities coalition & we need your help. As part of the redesignation process, WCC is required to collect & submit Partnership Agreements from our members, partners and stakeholders. You do not need to be a member to complete an agreement. The agreement - which takes less than three minutes to complete - expresses your commitment to & support for WCC's efforts. Download the agreement here. You may complete the fillable PDF & return it via email to Emily Nayder by Jan. 14, 2022. If you have any questions, please contact Emily at (219) 644-3690. Thank you for your support of our redesignation & for all you do to support the Clean Cities mission!

Save the date for the Transportation & Innovation Expo April 28 in Madison with our co-hosts Alliant Energy, the City of Madison & Madison Gas & Electric! Our sustainable transportation, infrastructure, technology and fleet vehicle conference & expo is the must-attend event of the year. Our last Transportation & Innovation Expo was the largest one-day sustainable transportation event in Wisconsin with more than 50 exhibitors in the 70,000-square-foot expo hall, 60 vehicles & equipment on display and 30 industry experts presenting in breakout sessions. Sponsorship and exhibit opportunities will be available. Registration opening soon! Learn more

The Biden administration released an ambitious federal strategy on Dec. 13 to build 500,000 charging stations for electric vehicles across the country and bring down the cost of electric cars with the goal of transforming the U.S. auto industry. “The future of transportation in our nation and around the world is electric,″ Vice President Kamala Harris said at an EV charging facility in suburban Maryland. The $1 trillion infrastructure law President Joe Biden signed last month authorizes a nationwide network of charging stations and sets aside $5 billion for states to build them. The law also provides an additional $2.5 billion for local grants to support charging stations in rural areas and in disadvantaged communities. Read the full Associated Press story and the White House Fact Sheet.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Vehicle Technologies Office recently announced the winners of the FY’21 “Low Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Vehicle Technologies Research, Development, Demonstration and Deployment” funding opportunity. Included in this year’s round was a Topic Area of “Electric Vehicle Workplace Charging.” One of the announced winners was the Columbia-Willamette Clean Cities Coalition (CWCC) and their EMPOWER proposal – “Equitable Mobility Powering Opportunities for Workplace Electrification Readiness.” This proposal included 30 DOE Clean Cities Coalitions - including Wisconsin Clean Cites - as a large workforce that would lead the boots-on-the-ground implementation of a new national workplace charging alliance. Learn more

We were thrilled to gather with our members & stakeholders Dec. 2 at the City of Madison Fleet Service Nakoosa Trail Fleet Facility for our Annual Stakeholder Meeting & Awards. It was wonderful to spend time with all of the speakers, sponsors, exhibitors, our host & attendees. Congratulations to all of our award winners & to our top Forward Fleet Award winner, Kwik Trip. Collectively, the Forward Fleet Award winners displaced more than 12.9 million gasoline gallon equivalents, which has the greenhouse gas emission reduction equivalent of taking roughly 25,000 passenger vehicles off the road for one year. Learn more

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is now accepting applications for the Wisconsin Clean Diesel Grant program. Approximately $320,000 is available to fund projects designed to reduce emissions from aging diesel engines. Applications are due Jan. 7. 2022. The 2021 Public Service Commission of Wisconsin Energy Innovation Grant has $10 million available for renewable energy, energy efficiency and energy planning projects. Applications are due January 14, 2022. Information on these and other funding opportunities is available in the Member Center.

Many people would rather forget the events of this past year and the year before, but for Wisconsin Clean Cities and the sustainable transportation industry as a whole, 2021 has been a year full of victories which will have positive implications for years to come. We learned this year that in 2020, our members and stakeholders displaced more than 50 million gasoline gallon equivalents, a record for our coalition. That is the greenhouse gas emission reduction equivalent of removing more than 97,000 passenger vehicles from the road for one year. Read Lorrie Lisek's monthly column in Kenosha News & other Lee Enterprises newspapers across Wisconsin.

Contract Transport Services, LLC -- headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin -- has been a Wisconsin Clean Cities member since 2013. Wisconsin Clean Cities is proud to have CTS Vice President of Finance Carrie Kratz serve as co-chair of the Wisconsin Clean Cities Board of Directors. When CTS began in 1985 as a single-truck operation doing cartage work for paper mills in the Green Bay area, it was impossible to know what a leader the company would become in Midwest regional transportation services. But here they are 30+ years later with a fleet of more than 150 trucks, providing exceptional, predictable transportation and logistics solutions in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa and Michigan. Learn more

Hydrogen (H2) is a potentially emission-free alternative fuel that can be produced using domestic resources. Although not widely used as a transportation fuel, government and industry researchers are working on the advancement of clean economical and safe hydrogen production and fuel-cell electric vehicles. Hydrogen is locked up in enormous quantities in water (H2O), hydrocarbons (such as methane, CH4) and other organic matter. Efficiently producing hydrogen from these compounds is one of the challenges of using hydrogen as a fuel. Learn more on our Website