Meeting Announcement Please join us on Thursday, February 23 for CACC's first stakeholder meeting of 2012 and annual awards ceremony, where IL Green Fleet Awards will be announced, as well as CACC's Clean Fuels Champion. When: Thursday, February 23 11:00am - 2:00pm Lunch will be provided Where: Winberie's Restaurant 151 North Oak Park Avenue Oak Park, IL 60301 Every year, the Chicago Area Clean Cities Coalition presents the Clean Fuels Champion Award to an individual or organization that has gone above and beyond to promote the Clean Cities’ mission. Selection of award recipients is based on actions they have taken to enhance the use of alternative fuels and advanced vehicle technologies in the Chicago Area. This year the CACC Executive Board is asking coalition stakeholders to nominate the next Clean Fuels Champion. If you are a fleet or an organization that has been working to reduce emissions, employ alternative-fuel technology or have taken other fleet “greening” actions, take a moment and send in your nomination. Submit a summary of your initiatives and any significant progress made in 2011 to RSVP@chicagocleancities.org. Please submit your nomination today! 2012 Membership Drive and Annual Clean Cities Survey Help CACC and US Department of Energy track alternative-fuel usage Each January, on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy, the Chicago Area Clean Cities coalition (CACC) asks all stakeholder fleets to participate in the Chicago Area Clean Cities Annual Survey. This year you can receive a free 2012 CACC membership for your organization by participating in a couple of coalition related activities (listed in Membership Letter below), including submitting your Annual Survey by March 1, 2012. Please read the introductory letter (PDF), and save the Annual Report file (XLS - Excel file) on your computer. Using the data from your fleet's operation in 2011, complete the blue blanks on all worksheets within the Excel file. Once again, this year you may apply for Illinois Green Fleet Recognition simply by completing the CACC Annual Survey. When finished, email the completed file to survey@chicagocleancities.org. Please contact Samantha Bingham by email with any questions about the survey (sam@chicagocleancities.org). A "Chicago Area Alternative Fuels Deployment Project" Success StoryFood Liner, Inc of Franklin Park, Illinois is a hauler of bulk food grade products to the major bakeries, pop and beer manufactures in the Chicago region. Their routes are conveniently situated to bring their vehicles near the existing GTI public-access CNG station in Des Plaines, Illinois. Recently, Food Liner's use of six Class 8 dedicated Freightliner chassis trucks with the Cummins ISL-G CNG engine in their daily delivery fleet was highlighted by MotorWeek. For more information about this story, click on the link below to watch a short video: "Thank You For Not Idling" cards available  Thanks to Argonne National Laboratory, CACC is pleased to make available the card shown above for easy downloading and printing. The high-quality PDF (2.5 MB) printable version can be printed on both sides of a sheet of 8.5" x 11" card stock and cut (following the crop marks) into three cards per page. The simple and well designed card lists the major drawbacks of needless idling, and it summarizes the Illinois and City of Chicago laws on idling. Keep a few with you and use them to educate those around you about the benefits of shutting off engines when standing.
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