Wisconsin Clean Cities recently honored the top sustainable transportation leaders in Wisconsin at the Wisconsin Clean Cities Transportation Conference & Annual Meeting.

“It's rewarding to see Wisconsin Clean Cities members demonstrate their commitment to sustainability through the use of clean transportation fuels, advanced vehicle technologies and energy-saving strategies." Wisconsin Clean Cities Executive Director Lorrie Lisek said. "We applaud their efforts as they support local jobs and our economy, while providing improved air quality and increased use of domestic energy resources.”

Forward Fleet Award winners, honored for the amount of petroleum displaced through the use of clean fuels and sustainable transportation technologies were:

1st Place - Kwik Trip of LaCrosse

2nd Place - Michels of Brownsville

3rd Place- Contract Transport Services

of Green Bay

4th Place - Time Transport, Inc. of Franksville

5th Place - Paper Transport, Inc.of DePere

Collectively, the Forward Fleet Award winners displaced more than 31.6 million gasoline gallon equivalents. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, that represents the greenhouse gas emission reduction equivalent of taking roughly 60,606 passenger vehicles off the road for one year.

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Popular RAISE Discretionary Grant Program helps communities build transportation projects that have significant local or regional impact and improve safety and equity.

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Transportation has published a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for $1.5 billion in grant funding through the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) discretionary grant program for 2023. The popular program helps communities around the country carry out projects with significant local or regional impact.

RAISE discretionary grants help project sponsors at the State and local levels, including municipalities, Tribal governments, counties, and others complete critical freight and passenger transportation infrastructure projects. The eligibility requirements of RAISE allow project sponsors to obtain funding for projects that are harder to support through other U.S. DOT grant programs.

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When adjusted to constant 2021 dollars, the average annual price difference between regular and premium gasoline remained between 27 and 33 cents per gallon from 1995 to 2012. Following that period, the average price difference began to increase sharply, peaking at 70 cents per gallon in 2020 and dropping slightly to 68 cents per gallon by 2021. The average price difference between midgrade and regular gasoline followed a similar trend but the difference in price was much less, peaking at 27 cents per gallon in 2019.

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Franklin Electric is committed to providing products, services, and system solutions for the movement of fuel and monitoring of critical devices that protect human health and the environment while delivering the lowest total cost of ownership.

They offer the world’s most complete line of petroleum equipment including Submersible Pumping Systems, Piping & Containment Systems, Service Station Hardware, Dispensing Systems, Fuel Management Systems, Wire Management Systems, Vapor Suppressant Systems and Transport Systems. They design integrated system solutions to help marketers address their challenges. Learn More

Truck Country® / Stoops Freightliner-Quality Trailer is one of the largest Freightliner dealership group in the U.S. today, serving customers at locations in Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio and Wisconsin. For nearly 60 years, Truck Country/Stoops has offered new and used medium and heavy duty trucks, expert service, an extensive parts inventory, and convenient financing options.

Truck Country® / Stoops Freightliner-Quality Trailer is part of McCoy Group, Inc., which was founded in 1958 by Robert McCoy in Shullsburg, WI. Today the company is still family-owned and is operated under the leadership of the McCoy family.

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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.

Currently, steam reforming of methane (natural gas) accounts for the majority of the hydrogen produced in the U.S. Almost all of the hydrogen produced domestically each year is used for refining petroleum, treating metals, producing fertilizer and procession foods. Hydrogen has been used for space flight since the 1950s.

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