USA, Pasadena CA

CALSTART has announced the winners of its Blue Sky Award™ 2008 with natural gas vehicle proponents again featuring strongly. The annual awards recognize outstanding marketplace contributions to clean air, energy efficiency and to the clean transportation industry overall by companies, organizations and individuals. Among the Blue Sky Award™ 2008 winners are:

• Business Region Goteborg of Sweden, won the Charles R. Imbrecht Blue Sky Innovation Award™ for catalyzing Sweden’s use of biomethane as a renewable transportation fuel now powering 4,500 natural gas cars, trucks and buses and a commuter train.

• Southern Counties Express, Inc., of Los Angeles, Calif., won a Blue Sky Merit Award™ for buying a fleet of liquefied natural gas (LNG) port trucks and operating an LNG fueling station that is publicly available to the port trucking community.

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