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Overcoming economic and logistical challenges to using locally produced clean burning fuel (from recycled waste materials or Washington-grown agricultural feed-stocks) that can be potentially utilized by County facilities and vehicles.
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County Executive Ron Sims issued an executive order (1-1-02) to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and other significant air pollutants from King County operations and to use county programs and policies to encourage their reduction from other sources in the region.
County departments have responded by purchasing hybrid cars and buses for the county fleet, the installation of particulate traps on existing county buses and other diesel vehicles, conversion of county diesel fuels to an ultra-low-sulfur grade (ULSG), adding biodiesel to ULSG, converting landfill gas at the Cedar Hills Landfill to make electricity, and initiating an award winning project that generates electricity with a fuel cell using methane gas from sewerage treatment.
King County staff (including BRED staff) is working with the Puget Sound Clean Air Coalition to identify agricultural sources of biodiesel (such as mustard seed) from Eastern Washington . BRED staff participated in a Biodiesel Summit hosted by the King County Department of Natural Resources along with 81 other stakeholders to map out strategies and next steps to promote and secure a reliable cost effective supply of biodiesel. In June 2005 BRED staff, at the invitation of the British Columbia provincial government, accompanied a delegation from King County to inspect the latest developments in hydrogen and fuel cell technology in the Vancouver area.
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