Updated at 12:45 p.m., Monday, March 12, 2007
Honolulu Clean Cities to get $100k for biodisel work
Advertiser Staff
Honolulu Clean Cities will received a $100,000 clean air grant for biodiesel work from the federal Environmental Protection Agency.The agency's Air Division Director Deborah Jordan will make the presentation Wednesday at the Oceanic institute as part of the West Coast Collaborative Campaign.
The "Biodiesel from Fuel Crops in Hawaii" project will evaluate some crop materials currently available in Hawai'i to determine if they are suitable for producing biodiesel. The project is led by Honolulu Clean Cities with partners Pacific Biodiesel, Aloha Green, the University of Hawai'i – Hilo's College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Natural Resource Management, Oceanic Institute, Hawaii Agricultural Research Center, and Grace Pacific.
The West Coast Collaborative represents a partnership between leaders from federal, state, and local government, the private business, and environmental groups in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Arizona, Alaska, Hawai'i, Canada and Mexico committed to reducing diesel emissions along the West Coast.
