Mayors gathered in Oklahoma City passed a resolution Monday urging federal government to encourage increased use of natural gas as a transportation fuel.
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BY JAY F. MARKS
Published: June 15, 2010
Mayors assembled at an Oklahoma City conference unanimously approved a resolution Monday calling on the federal government to encourage increased use of natural gas as a transportation fuel.
The move at the U.S. Conference of Mayors drew plaudits from at least two natural gas advocacy groups.
"We applaud the U.S. Conference of Mayors for uniting behind the important concept that natural gas helps clean the air and is an abundant American resource that can shift our reliance to domestically produced energy,” said America's Natural Gas Alliance CEO Regina Hopper. "The mayors' emphasis on natural gas should serve as a model for federal and state policymakers.
"By taking a page from these local leaders' playbooks, we can take advantage of our nation's vast natural gas resources to advance clean power generation and transportation.”... FULL ARTICLE
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Tue, June 15, 2010
by Crystal Drwenski