Pa. DEP Hands Out $4.4 Million Dollars in Green Fuel Grants

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Susan Phillips tells stories about the consequences of political decisions on people's every day lives. She has worked as a reporter for WHYY since 2004. Susan's coverage of the 2008 Presidential election resulted in a story on the front page of the New York Times. In 2010 she traveled to Haiti to cover the earthquake. That same year she produced an award-winning series on Pennsylvania's natural gas rush called "The Shale Game." She received a 2013 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Journalism Award for her work covering natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania. She has also won several Edward R. Murrow awards for her work with StateImpact. In 2013/14 she spent a year at MIT as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow. She has also been a Metcalf Fellow, an MBL Logan Science Journalism Fellow and reported from Marrakech on the 2016 climate talks as an International Reporting Project Fellow. A graduate of Columbia School of Journalism, she earned her Bachelor's degree in International Relations from George Washington University.

October 25, 2011 | 3:51 PM

The Department of Environmental Protection says it will help fund the development of natural gas and electric powered vehicles. The “Alternative Fuel Incentive Grants” will go to 12 projects across the state. The DEP says the conversions from gas and diesel will have the same effect as eliminating 10,000 cars from the state’s roadways.
The projects include natural gas powered taxis, delivery trucks, and shuttle busses. The money will also go toward the construction of natural gas fueling stations, and solar-powered charging stations for electric vehicles. The grants are funded by the state’s utility gross receipts tax.