New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), North America’s largest public transit agency, has awarded New Flyer of America Inc. a $216 million contract to supply the MTA with up to 475 compressed natural gas (CNG) powered buses. New Yorkers will be able to breathe a bit easier as engines running on compressed natural gas emit less CO2, nitrogen oxides, and particulate matter than diesel engines. What would make this even better would be if the natural gas was produced in the vast natural gas reserves in New York’s Marcellus Shale. The production of homegrown, clean-burning natural gas would provide thousands of jobs to New Yorkers and revitalize our sinking economy.