Seattle Mayor, Mike McGinn, was on hand last week to accept Fleet Owner’s 2011 Vocational Fleet of the Year award on behalf of the City of Seattle. The city’s fleet (of some 4,000 vehicles) was selected in part because of the progress fleet managers have made toward sustainability under their…

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued its Final Rule Noncomformance Penalties (NCPs) that allow engine makers to produce and sell “heavy heavy-duty diesel engines” that do not meet the agency’s current 2010 NOx emission limit by NOx emission limit by paying penalties to the federal government on a…