Veolia Transportation Services has tapped Clean Energy Fuels Corp. to build, operate and maintain a compressed natural gas bus fueling station at Veolia's downtown Los Angeles facilities.


Through a contract with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro), Veolia will begin operating new environmentally friendly CNG buses in April 2010, as part of Metro's wider efforts to replace older diesel-fueled buses with new CNG models.

Clean Energy will start building the new station in January 2010, and expects to be finished by mid-2010. CNG fuel requirements are projected at more than 420,000 gasoline-gallon-equivalents in the first year of the Veolia station's operations.

"Across the U.S., Clean Energy is partnering with major metropolitan public transit agencies and their service providers to fuel over 5,000 buses and to help them implement and expand clean-fuel programs for their bus fleets," said James Harger, Clean Energy senior vice president and chief marketing officer. "CNG has proven to significantly lower harmful emissions like nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, toxic pollutants and greenhouse gases as compared to diesel fuel."

Clean Energy works with Veolia at other public transit agencies across the country including Foothill Transit and Valley Metro in Phoenix, Ariz. The company also partnered with Southland Transit for a fueling facility for CNG bus service to the San Gabriel Valley section of Los Angeles County.