Dive Brief:

• Waste Management of Houston, TX announces the opening of its latest compressed natural gas fueling station. The station is located in Melbourne, FL and will service the Brevard County fleet.
• The waste and recycling company has a fleet in the county comprised of 35 trucks, all of which are powered by CNG. Waste Management has 262 CNG-operated trucks throughout the Sunshine State, making this fleet the largest in the waste industry in Florida.
• Waste Management anticipates operating 500 CNG trucks in Florida by 2019.

Dive Insight:

David Steiner, president and CEO of Waste Management, is a proponent of compressed natural gas and recently joined chairman and CEO of BP Capital, T. Boone Pickens, to promote an increase of CNG fueled fleets across the nation. The company continues to open and build CNG fueling stations and convert its fleet around the country into CNG-powered vehicles.