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City of Calimesa Purchases Alternative Fuel Vehicles
Pedley Propane Joins Western Riverside County Clean Cities Coalition
Western Riverside County Clean Air Awards
The University of California, Riverside (UCR) received an award for Innovative Transportation Projects, for its IntelliShare Shared-Use Vehicle Project. This campus-based shared vehicle demonstration program began operation in April 1999 and concluded in July 2010, in a partnership between the College of Engineering-Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT) of UC Riverside and Honda Motor Company. The program aimed to reduce users’ costs, decrease need for parking spaces, improve overall air quality and link with other modes of transportation. SANBAG Launches Ryder LNG Truck Project Ryder System, Inc. (Ryder), a global transport and supply chain management business, has been selected by the San Bernardino Associated Governments (SANBAG) Board as its fleet partner in a groundbreaking heavy-duty natural gas truck rental and leasing project in Southern California. Ryder will use $19.3 million in state and federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) funding secured by SANBAG to implement the project. Ryder states that this is the first time that natural gas trucks will be deployed into a large commercial truck rental and leasing operation. As part of the project, Ryder will purchase more than 200 heavy-duty natural gas powered trucks. Both liquefied and compressed natural gas (LNG and CNG) on-board fuel storage systems will be used, depending upon the specific type of truck purchased and the anticipated application. These ultra low-emission trucks will be deployed into Ryder's Southern California operations network, where Ryder's customers will be able to access them through short-term rentals, long-term leases, or through Ryder's dedicated logistics services. To support these trucks, Ryder will construct new natural gas refueling stations within the region and work with customers to identify and utilize the existing natural gas refueling infrastructure already located throughout Southern California. As part of Ryder's core product offering, the Company will maintain the vehicles at three of its strategically located maintenance shops in Orange, Rancho Dominguez, and Rancho Cucamonga. In addition to reducing emissions, Ryder customers who incorporate natural gas vehicles in their fleet have the opportunity to realize additional cost savings due to lower natural gas costs compared to diesel costs. Additional Stories CARB: Changes in diesel emission control measures Tax bill passed extending alternative fuel tax incentives GM Volt available to American consumers in November CARB gives consumers insight on buying fuel efficient cars GM Invests $23 million in electric vehicles components Ferrallgas trucks give back to charity
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The Western Riverside Clean Cities Coalition (Coalition) is proud to announce that the City of Calimesa has purchased two new alternative fuel vehicles. The City recently purchased a 2010 Ford F-250 truck that is fueled by liquefied natural gas and a 2009 Ford Escape Hybrid that gets 34 mpg. The LPG truck replaced an old 1991 Ford F-250 with approximately 600,000 miles that ran on gasoline only. The City purchased the vehicles using funds from the South Coast Air Quality Management District; the funding is used specifically to replace high emission gas guzzling trucks with new cleaner alternative fuel vehicles. The City spent a total of $60,550, including taxes, license fees and registration, on their new cleaner, greener vehicles. The Coalition continues to assist local member jurisdictions, such as the City of Calimesa, in finding funding sources and opportunities to allow for the purchase of alternative fuel vehicles and alternative technology vehicles. 
The Coalition is proud to welcome Pedley Propane, a division of Heritage Propane, as its newest member. Pedley Propane is located in both the City of Riverside and City of Temecula. The company has been supplying quality propane for over 100 years and is dedicated to creating cleaner greener fueling options to reduce harmful emissions. Propane is a non-toxic, colorless, and odorless gas produced from natural gas processing and crude oil refining. Propane is a safe fuel to use in your home or business environment. Clean, efficient propane has long been recognized as an environmentally friendly energy, and is approved alternative fuel listed in both the Clean Air Act of 1990 and the National Energy Policy Act of 2005. For more information on Pedley Propane, 
The South Coast Air Quality Management District hosted their annual Clean Air Awards at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles on October 1, 2010, honoring individuals and businesses for making significant contributions to cleaner air in the Southland over the past year. Western Riverside County’s Eastern Municipal Water District received the award for Advancement of Air Pollution Control Technology for its renewable-fuel based cogeneration system. The water district has successfully operated a digester gas-driven fuel cell system since January 2009 to help power wastewater treatment at its Moreno Valley Regional Water Reclamation Facility. Adopting fuel cell technology allows the facility to self-generate 40 percent of the peak electricity needed to run the facility while also shrinking its carbon footprint by 35 percent, as well as reducing nitrogen oxide and carbon monoxide emissions at the facility.
