March 5, 2018
In a letter to the editor published in Crain’s New York Business, Energy Vision Founder Joanna D. Underwood argues that New York City could meet its goal of cutting greenhouse gases 80% by 2050 by switching to biogas buses.
The letter ensures that 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. “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.”
According to Underwood, 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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