NGVAmerica and the Clean Vehicle Education Foundation presented its 2010 National NGV Achievement Awards, honoring three organizations and three individuals.
The awards were announced during the associations' joint Natural Gas Vehicle Summit-Conference.

The 2010 award winners are:

* Verizon, which will add 501 CNG cargo vans to its fleet of vehicles this year. The company, which is based in New York, delivers broadband and other wireless and wireline communications services to mass market, business, government and wholesale customers.

* Choice Environmental Services of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for its efforts as a small independent company to implement the first natural gas vehicle refuse fleet of 11 trucks in Florida. Choice is a residential, commercial, institutional and industrial provider of solid waste and recycling services, serving the community of South Florida.

* The Los Angeles Unified School District in California for its commitment to the greening of its school bus fleet. With the help of the South Coast Air Quality Management District, the district has purchased 260 new natural gas powered school buses.

* Oklahoma Speaker of the House Chris Benge, for his leadership in advancing the development of natural gas vehicles in Oklahoma. Through his leadership, Oklahoma recently passed the Oklahoma Energy Security Act, which establishes the goal of having at least one public CNG station every 100 miles by 2015.

* Joseph Noorlag, vice president of operations support, West region, for Republic Services, for his efforts this year in deploying 226 refuse vehicles at 10 facilities from California to Washington. Republic, which is based in Phoenix, provides services in the domestic solid waste industry.

* Ron Gulmi, manager of product management, transportation, for National Grid, for his commitment to advancing the growth of natural gas vehicles throughout the Northeast. National Grid is an international electricity and gas company with U.S. offices in New York, where it transports natural gas to more than 3.4 million customers in New England and New York.