The City of Commerce, Calif., will open a new liquefied natural gas and compressed natural gas fueling station this week, managed and operated by Clean Energy.


The station will provide LNG and CNG fueling for the city's CNG transit fleet, its LNG port trucks, natural gas-powered refuse vehicles and other private and municipal natural gas fleet vehicles operating throughout the region.

The city will hold a ribbon cutting ceremony Thursday for the new refueling station at its location at 5926 Sheila Street.

Speakers will include City of Commerce Mayor Tina Baca Del Rio; Claude McFerguson, acting director of the City of Commerce Transportation Department; Ray Tellis, Federal Transit Administration team leader; Samara Emmersen, Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee; Erik Neandross, project director, Interstate Clean Transportation Corridor; Robert Curry, president and CEO of California Cartage Company; and Luis Cabrales, deputy director of campaigns, Coalition for Clean Air.