By Joanna D. Underwood
Energy Vision Founder
To the editor:
Align, the alliance of New York community and labor organizations, is right to call climate change one of the most urgent threats facing New Yorkers and to flag the need for the new City Council speaker to address it (“Bold climate-change actions the next City Council speaker must take,”Crains NewYork.com). The city needs to take action not only in the building sector but in the transportation sector, which is the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in the U.S. and accounts for 25% of the city’s.
Buses and heavy-duty trucks are critical factors in those emissions. Align suggests electrifying the city’s bus fleet, but there’s another worthy option: converting it to run on biogas—specifically, renewable natural gas fuel made from organic waste.
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A version of this article appears in the February 26, 2018, print issue of Crain’s New York Business.
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