Four members of the New York City Council have sent a letter to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)/New York City Transit asking it to consider the adoption of renewable natural gas (RNG) buses. The Council members — who have MTA bus depots in their districts which house CNG buses now — signed the letter after recent discussions with Energy Vision about how the City’s bus fleet can be cleaner and greener by using this new fuel.
Renewable natural gas (aka RNG or Biomethane) made from the biogases produced by decomposing organic waste can be used as a substitute for conventional CNG in any of the 800 CNG buses in the MTA’s 5,800 bus fleet. Better yet, the combination of this ultra-low-carbon fuel and new “near-zero” emission engine technology is a true climate and clean air winner, reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 70% or more and reducing health-threatening particulate matter (PM) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions by 90% compared to the cleanest diesel engines.
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