National Parks Service Honors Clean Cities Coalitions with Director’s Partnership Award

Prestigious NPS award recognizes the outstanding support coalition partners offered in the completion of 30 sustainable transportation park projects.

The National Park Service (NPS) recently recognized 19 Clean Cities coalitions with 2015 Director’s Partnership Awards for their support of sustainable transportation projects in parks across the country. The Director’s Partnership Award recognizes the outstanding achievements carried out by national park partners nationwide. Recipients of the Director’s Partnership Award are helping to transform the world—one trail, site, community, and person at a time.

In 2010, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Clean Cities program and the NPS partnered together through the Clean Cities National Parks Initiative (CCNPI) to reduce petroleum use and greenhouse gas emissions in national parks. Together, Clean Cities coalitions and parks across the country,