| USC’s biodiesel-fueled buses and other Midlands-area alternative fuel transit fleets will be recognized Jan. 28 in a ceremony designating Columbia as a National Clean City by the U.S. Department of Energy. The event will be held from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the State Museum on Gervais Street.
The event will include representatives from the state Department of Agriculture, the S.C. Energy Office, the Palmetto State Clean Fuels Coalition (PSCFC), and the U.S. Department of Energy. USC buses last year switched to using biodiesel fuel, a mixture of diesel and soybean oil that reduces harmful emissions. Designation as a Clean City by the U.S. Department of Energy recognizes measures the PSCFC stakeholders have undertaken to deploy alternative fuels in a nine-county region. Designation also allows the PSCFC to apply for competitive grant funding from the Department of Energy to develop alternative fuels projects.
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