Support
was provided by the Environmental Defense Fund, Cummins, Cummins
Westport, Royal Dutch Shell, the American Gas Association, Chart
Industries, Clean Energy, the International Council on Clean
Transportation, PepsiCo, Volvo Group, Waste Management and Westport
Innovations.
Funding
for EDF’s methane research series, including the West Virginia
University
study, is provided for by Fiona and Stan Druckenmiller, Heising-Simons
Foundation, Bill and Susan Oberndorf, Betsy and Sam Reeves, Robertson
Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, TomKat Charitable Trust and the
Walton Family Foundation.
Support was also provided by West Virginia University’s George Berry Chair
endowment.
The authors also acknowledge the support provided by the WVU Transportable
Chassis Testing Laboratory personnel including Drs. Arvind Thiruvengadam and Marc Besch.
We also would like to thank the members of the Technical Advisory Panel,
Science Advisory Panel and Steering Committee for their commitment, expertise and feedback during this program.