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APGA Staff Participate in Advocacy Panel at TTP Summit

By Joshua St.Pierre posted 4 days ago

  
Late last month, APGA staff participated in a panel discussion at the Transport Project’s 2024 Industry Summit, offering the public gas perspective on what’s going on in Washington, DC, and what APGA is working on in Congress. The Transport Project (formerly Natural Gas Vehicles of America, NGVA) is a national coalition of roughly 200 fleets, vehicle and engine manufacturers, servicers, and suppliers, and fuel producers and providers that advocate for the increased use of gaseous motor fuels, including renewable natural gas (RNG) and hydrogen. Many APGA members across the country own and operate their own fleets of natural gas vehicles (NGVs), operate or deliver fuel to NGV fueling stations, or provide fuel for commercial NGVs like city buses, school buses, and semi-trucks. Opportunities like this to share public gas utilities’ advocacy priorities with aligned industry leaders are vitally important as we all collaborate to educate policymakers about the direct use of reliable, efficient, and affordable natural gas and the future benefits emerging fuel technologies, such as RNG and hydrogen, can offer. 
 
The panel discussion centered primarily on efforts in the Capitol to educate members of Congress and regulators on the importance of programs that incentivize the use of natural gas infrastructure and natural gas/RNG as a transportation fuel. Panelists talked about how these incentive programs are sparking investment in technologies that utilize the current reliable natural gas infrastructure while reducing emissions and meeting sustainability goals. APGA staff also shared with attendees more on the difficulties that public gas systems are encountering with the Administration and its efforts to progress policies that force electrification broadly, not only in the transportation sector. These include recent minimum efficiency standards that drastically restrict access to gas-fueled appliances like residential furnaces. 
 
As we approach a contentious election season and the need for Congress to renew and reaffirm their commitments to incentive programs that enable the direct use of natural gas, panelists discussed the need for members of the natural gas industry, including APGA members, to advocate for the programs, current or proposed, that are beneficial to the work they do. Read more about a few of these programs below: 
 
For questions on this article, please contact Josh St.Pierre of APGA staff by phone at 202-407-0015 or by email at jstpierre@apga.org.

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