Sentences with phrase «purchasing alterative»
The federal government will lead the way toward the use of alternative fuels by purchasing alterative fuel vehicles.
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To this end, each federal agency was directed by EPAct to purchase a mandated percentage of alterative fuel vehicles and report its purchases to Congress and the public to ensure compliance.
Instead of extending EPAct's alterative fuel vehicle purchasing requirements to private and municipal fleets, DOE announced a «Catch 22» ruling declaring it would neither revise the Act's 30 % goal to a more realistic target nor apply the alterative fuel vehicle purchasing requirements to private and municipal fleets because even if it did so it would still fail to meet the Act's original 30 % goal.
The lawsuit challenges the DOE's failure to mandate the purchase reporting of alterative fuel vehicles by such fleets.
The EPAct requires all federal agencies with light duty fleet vehicles in major metropolitan areas to ensure that at least 75 % of their fleet purchases each year are alterative fuel vehicles instead of traditional petroleum - fueled cars and trucks.
The lawsuit follows a suit filed by the Center, Bluewater and Sierra Club in 2000, for which a federal court ruled in 2002 that the federal government had failed to purchase sufficient alterative fuel vehicles or disclose whether they had acquired the required numbers of alterative fuel vehicles.
The lawsuit also seeks compliance with EPAct purchasing requirements of alterative fuel vehicles for private and local municipal government fleets if needed to meet petroleum fuel reduction goals.
If federal purchasing alone proves insufficient to drive the market for alterative fuel vehicles, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is required to expand the alterative fuel vehicle purchasing program to qualifying private and municipal fleets to meet EPAct's goal of moving 30 % of this nation's vehicle fleet to alterative fuel vehicles by 2010.
EPAct sets target percentages for the purchase of alterative fuel vehicles by all federal agencies that maintain vehicle fleets.