And Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, will offer a new
public access CNG station that operates 24 hours, 7 days a week and
serves The Parking Spot CNG shuttles as well as fleets owned by other
off-airport parking operators, taxis and fleet vehicles in the
Northeast Houston area. Ranked as America’s eighth-largest airport, the
airport now serves more than 43 million passengers annually.
The
new CNG fueling station near McCarran International Airport in Las
Vegas will offer convenient, around-the-clock access to limousines,
taxis, shuttle vans and buses that serve airport and major Las Vegas
hotels, attractions and businesses. “We recognize that air quality is
one of the most difficult environmental issues facing Las Vegas today,”
says Brent Bell, president of Bell Transportation. “Our company is
committed to supporting local vehicle emissions control initiatives,
and we have begun the process of transitioning our fleets to
alternative fuel power. We are delighted to work with Clean Energy in
this effort.”
McCarran International Airport serves Las Vegas
and Clark County in southern Nevada. Located five miles south of the
Las Vegas Central Business District, it’s ranked 15th in the world for
passenger traffic, with 44 million travelers passing through the
terminal each year.
Clean Energy is the leading provider of
natural gas for transportation in North America. The company has a
broad customer base in the refuse, transit, ports, shuttle, taxi,
trucking, airport and municipal fleet markets, fueling more than 17,500
vehicles at 195 strategic locations across the United States and
Canada.
“Aware of high concentrations of harmful emissions in
and around airports, and concerned about reducing dependence on foreign
oil, airports and their allied services are increasingly adopting
alternative-fuel policies for their ground transportation vehicles,”
says James Harger, Clean Energy’s chief marketing officer and senior
vice president. “In most cases, they opt to transition their fleets to
vehicles powered by clean-burning natural gas.”
Harger says that
natural gas fuel produces up to 30 percent fewer greenhouse gas
emissions than gasoline when used in light-duty vehicles and up to 23
percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions than diesel when used in medium-
to heavy-duty applications.