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Thank you to everyone who joined us for yesterday’s “Renewable Fuels” webinar! We hope you gained new knowledge on the pollution and climate benefits of renewable fuels and how several of our local fleets are currently procuring and using them.

We also want to express our gratitude to our webinar speakers — Stephanie Meyn with the Port of Seattle, Don Ashmore with Tacoma Public Utilities, and Philip Saunders with the City of Seattle.

To view a recording of the webinar, please visit our website.

Several of our members currently provide renewable fuels:

Renewable gasoline: Scooter J. Logistics
Renewable propane: Blue Star Gas
Renewable diesel: Renewable Energy Group

You may also be interested to see the City of Seattle’s Green Fleet Action Plan, which calls for replacing fossil fuels with bio-based fuels to reduce emissions.

And if you’d like to learn more about clean fuels in Washington, tune into our upcoming webinar on hydrogen fuel cells.

Have feedback for us on this webinar? We’d love to hear from you.

See you next time!

by Kamaria Hightower on September 24, 2019

Seattle (September 24) – Mayor Jenny A. Durkan today signed a new Executive Order to affirm and advance the City of Seattle’s commitment to economic inclusion and contracting equity, and expand the City’s outreach to women- and minority-owned businesses (WMBE).

“As a large buyer in our local economy, we have a responsibility to use our purchasing power to help small businesses that have been historically underserved and underused,” said Mayor Durkan. “With this Executive Order, we’re doing more to help women- and minority-owned businesses thrive in Seattle. And we’re setting ambitious goals and lasting processes to make sure that we’re fulfilling our commitment to this community.”

“Today, we are reaffirming our commitment to WMBE businesses and ensuring all firms have the same access and opportunities,” said Council President Bruce Harrell. “We looked at the reported contracting data and know we can do better. The City is a learning organization and it is incumbent on all of us to help City departments retrain, expand and conduct effective outreach to increase diversity in contracting and reducing barriers for small businesses. While most City departments are enthusiastic about increasing inclusion, we want to make sure they have the resources and tools to make this happen. I envision Seattle to be a national model for best practices for contracting equity programs.”

The Executive Order directs the City to:

• Immediately commission a disparity study to identify current barriers to contracting equity and the efficacy of current efforts. The study will focus on, but is not limited to, barriers in WMBE participation in City procurements, certification, consistency and efficacy of current department practices, and technical assistance and challenges;
• Develop a strategic and operational plan to bolster language-appropriate outreach to better serve immigrant and refugee communities, improve utilization of community liaisons, interpreters and translators in contracting efforts;
• Establish a Mayoral WMBE Advisory Committee to provide guidance and feedback on the City’s contracting equity initiatives. The Advisory Committee will be composed of local women- and minority-owned businesses and other underutilized firms, including but not limited to, LGBTQ+, immigrants and refugees, emerging, small, and disadvantaged businesses; and
• Expand outreach to overcome historic barriers caused by inequitable access to information and data. The City will target outreach to WMBE firms who have historically faced these barriers to close this gap.

“Women- and minority- owned businesses provide important, key services to the City, from communications to construction, and everything in between,” said Calvin W. Goings, Director of the Department of Finance and Administrative Services. “As the City’s WMBE contracting lead, we’re prepared to make sure there’s equitable opportunity through every dollar the City spends.”

“As a WMBE firm that provides civil engineering expertise in Seattle, contracting with the City has been a critical part of our growth and success,” said Xiaoping Zhang, Founder and Principal Engineer, Concord Engineering. “Today’s efforts make important and lasting improvements to the City’s contracting equity work, and I look forward to continued partnership with Mayor Durkan and the City of Seattle to deliver projects for our residents.”

The Executive Order directs the department of Finances and Administrative Services (FAS) to convene a workgroup to operate in partnership with the Mayor’s WMBE Advisory Committee. Going forward, compliance with WMBE performances metrics will be included in all City department director performance agreements to ensure accountability. Finally, beginning in 2020, FAS shall produce a citywide annual report by the end of the second quarter that will illustrate the prior year’s progress and performance on contracting equity and economic inclusion initiatives.

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Nov. 04, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Gevo, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEVO), a leading renewable fuels and chemicals manufacturer, announced today it has made the winning bid in a competitive process conducted by the City of Seattle to provide renewable gasoline to its fleet vehicles. Gevo has been awarded a four (4) year contract, with three (3) two-year extensions, to supply at minimum 200,000 gallons/year of renewable isobutanol and 600,000 gallons/year renewable isooctane (“renewable gasoline”) to the City of Seattle to displace fossil-based gasoline. The bidding process was part of Seattle’s Green Fleet Action Plan (GFAP) authored by Philip Saunders, Seattle’s Green Fleet Program Manager, to tackle its fleet emissions aggressively.

“The City of Seattle is making a measurable difference, and together, we can reach the goals of its Green Fleet Action Plan. The city is again illustrating what is possible; to break away from fossil-based fuels and to reduce CO2 and particulate emissions, as well as other related pollution,” stated Patrick Gruber, Chief Executive Officer of Gevo. “These volumes are a great initial starting point to make some real change. Gevo will again supply isobutanol then migrate into our renewable gasoline through the use of isooctane, once the Luverne plant is expanded up to 10-12MGPY.”

For this program, Gevo has partnered with certified veteran and minority-owned small businesses, Scooter J Logistics and Small and Sons Oil Distribution Company, to deliver the final blended renewable gasoline products. These businesses will coordinate the blending, logistics, and delivery of the final product to the City of Seattle.

About Gevo

Gevo is a next-generation “low-carbon” fuel company focused on the development and commercialization of renewable alternatives to petroleum-based products. Low-carbon fuels reduce the carbon intensity, or the level of greenhouse gas emissions, compared to standard fossil-based fuels across their lifecycle. The most common low-carbon fuels are renewable fuels. Gevo is focused on the development and production of mainstream fuels like gasoline and jet fuel using renewable feedstocks that have the potential to lower greenhouse gas emissions at a meaningful scale and enhance agricultural production, including food and other related products. In addition to serving the low-carbon fuel markets, through Gevo’s technology, Gevo can also serve markets to produce chemical intermediate products for solvents, plastics, and building block chemicals. Learn more at our website: www.gevo.com

Certain statements in this press release may constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements relate to a variety of matters, including, without limitation, statements related to Gevo’s collaboration and activities with the City of Seattle and its ability to perform under the contract successfully, if at all, the attributes of Gevo’s products, Gevo’s ability to contribute to a reduction in GHG emissions, Gevo’s ability to expand or continue production of isobutanol and renewable gasoline at its production facility in Luverne, Minnesota, and other statements that are not purely statements of historical fact. These forward-looking statements are made on the basis of the current beliefs, expectations, and assumptions of the management of Gevo and are subject to significant risks and uncertainty. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements. All such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and Gevo undertakes no obligation to update or revise these statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Although Gevo believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, these statements involve many risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from what may be expressed or implied in these forward-looking statements. For a further discussion of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from those expressed in these forward-looking statements, as well as risks relating to the business of Gevo in general, see the risk disclosures in the Annual Report on Form 10-K of Gevo for the year ended December 31, 2018 and in subsequent reports on Forms 10-Q and 8-K and other filings made with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by Gevo.

Investor and Media Contact Shawn M. Severson Integra Investor Relations +1 415-226-7747 info@integra-ir.com