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Given San Francisco's environmentally conscious ways, it's not surprising that the city is also a leader in alternative fuel vehicle (AFV) technology, with over 800 AFVs in its own fleet. Powered by natural gas, electricity, biodiesel, plug-in hybrid demonstration and hybrid technology, these clean air vehicles emit fewer pollutants and contribute to national energy security by reducing oil consumption.

To support the growing alternative fuel industry, San Francisco has secured grants to buy vehicles for the city's fleet, encouraged manufacturers to produce cleaner vehicles, built fueling and recharging stations accessible to the public, and sponsored public exhibits of the latest in clean fuel technology.

Achievements

More than half the city's public transit fleet, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (Muni), is comprised of zero-emission vehicles.

More than 100 compressed natural gas (CNG) taxis drive more than one million miles per month.

The city's Clean Air Program earned the American Lung Association of the Greater Bay Area's Clean Air Award for Transportation Programs in 2004.

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Agencies

SF Environment's Clean Air Program (CAP) - Leading the city's clean air and transportation efforts since 1993.

The Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) - Responsible for air quality monitoring throughout the nine Bay Area counties; oversees the Transportation Fund for Clean Air, the single largest local funding source for clean air transportation projects

Norcal, the city's refuse hauler, and Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), the local utility corporation - Instrumental in supporting efforts to promote clean air transportation in the San Francisco Bay Area.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 - Works to protect public health and the environment in the southwestern United States (Arizona, California, Nevada, and Hawaii), 147 federally recognized tribes in the Pacific Southwest, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and other unincorporated U.S. Pacific possessions.

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Public Awareness

SF Ahead of its Biodiesel Goals April 24, 2007



SF to make Biodiesel from Restaurant Grease April 13, 2007



MUNI Looks Into Hybrid Buses July 5, 2007

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