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California Natural Gas Vehicle Partnership
GNA is the contract outreach coordinator for the California Natural Gas Vehicle Partnership (CNGVP), a membership-based organization designed to promote the benefits of natural gas vehicles. GNA works with the CNGVP to provide government affairs outreach strategy for California's elected officials and legislators, publish a newsletter, maintain the organization’s website, and respond to immediate PR and media needs as requested. http://www.cngvp.org
Phoenix Motorcars, Inc.
On behalf of Phoenix Motorcars Inc., a leading electric vehicle manufacturer, and several other California-based electric vehicle manufacturers, GNA organized a series of meetings with key legislators in Sacramento, California, to discuss the benefits of electric vehicles while encouraging policies that promote buyer incentives. These efforts led to the signing of a letter of support for the California Zero Emission Vehicle Program from the Environmental Caucus. Additional activities included organizing outreach and testimonies at key board meetings and facilitating meetings with key policymakers and elected officials. http://www.phoenixmotorcars.com
PG&E Generating Otay Mesa Power Plant
When PG&E Generating determined that there were not sufficient emission credits available in the San Diego market, the company turned to GNA to assist in the development of the nation's first mobile-source to stationary-source emission credit trading program. On behalf of the client, GNA worked with local, state and federal air quality regulators to develop and implement a new credit trading program whereby mobile-source emission credits were created by converting Waste Management's entire San Diego refuse collection fleet to operate on clean-burning LNG instead of diesel fuel. These mobile-source credits were then traded as the emissions offsets for the 596 MW natural gas combined cycle: Otay Mesa Power Plant. From its experience working on this project, GNA was then asked to participate in the development of similar mobile-to-stationary emission credit policies, including the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) Rule 1612.1 and Mojave Desert Air Pollution Control District's (APCD) Rule 1405. http://www.pgecorp.com
Texas Emissions Reduction Plan
In 2001, GNA helped form and manage a coalition of environmental, utility and advanced transportation interests to pursue the development of legislation in Texas that would provide grants for the diesel emission reductions. The Texas Coalition for Clean Transportation worked with state Senator Bob Buster's staff on the draft of SB 5 which, with its passage in May 2001, created the Texas Emission Reduction Program (TERP), one of the nation's premier incentive programs for diesel emission reductions. http://www.tceq.state.tx.us
The Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program
As part of our ongoing work to address regional air quality concerns, GNA regularly participates in the development of relevant legislative and public education efforts. In 1997-98, GNA managed the grass roots mobilization effort to support AB 1368 (Villaraigosa, Brulte), bipartisan legislation that fostered the creation of a $25 million program to fund the purchase of clean, heavy-duty vehicles in California. GNA secured testimony and support from over 100 coalition members, including trucking companies, environmental and public health advocates, municipalities, utilities and others in the public and private sectors. Now in its 8th year, with $1 billion in funding committed to the program by the state of California through 2015, the Carl Moyer Program has become one of, if not the most important air quality improvement programs ever created. It has become the model program others aim to replicate throughout the United States. http://www.arb.ca.gov
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