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SEAL BEACH, Calif., Mar 11, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (Nasdaq: CLNE), North America's leader in clean transportation, strongly supports AT&T in its major commitment to natural gas vehicles in its fleet nationwide.

AT&T chairman and CEO, Randall Stephenson, announced today that the company plans to invest up to $565 million as part of a long-term strategy to deploy more than 15,000 alternative-fuel vehicles over the next 10 years. AT&T expects to spend an estimated $350 million of that amount over five years to purchase about 8,000 natural gas (CNG) vehicles. This represents the largest corporate commitment to CNG vehicles to date.

"AT&T and other U.S. corporations have a unique opportunity to partner with the new administration as it works to lead the country out of this economic downturn," said Stephenson. "While there are no easy solutions to the challenges facing our nation, this investment is a first step on our part to help boost other industries while at the same time encouraging wider use and production of efficient vehicles and domestic fuel alternatives."

Addressing the commitment, Clean Energy president and CEO, Andrew J. Littlefair, said, "This action by AT&T is a giant step forward by American business to address the new energy needs of our nation, particularly for deploying natural gas vehicles to help reduce imports of foreign oil and clean our environment. Many countries in Europe, South America and Asia already have moved aggressively to the use of natural gas vehicles, and the United States is beginning to respond as evident by the new AT&T announcement.

"Clean Energy stands ready to support this and other fleet commitments to natural gas fuel with advanced fueling infrastructure and services around the country," noted Littlefair.

Clean Energy is the leading provider of natural gas (CNG and LNG) for transportation in North America. It has a broad customer base in the refuse, transit, ports, shuttle, taxi, trucking, airport and municipal fleet markets, fueling more than 15,000 vehicles daily at 176 strategic locations across the United States and Canada. Clean Energy owns and operates two LNG production plants, one in Willis, TX and one in Boron, CA, with combined capacity of 260,000 LNG gallons per day and designed to expand to 340,000 LNG gallons per day as demand increases. It also owns and operates a landfill gas facility in Dallas, TX that produces renewable biomethane gas for delivery in the nation's gas pipeline network. Please visit www.cleanenergyfuels.com.

Forward-Looking Statements This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including statements about the potential growth of the AT&T natural gas vehicle fleet and any services that could be provided by Clean Energy to AT&T or other natural gas vehicle fleet owners. Actual results and the timing of events could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of several factors including budget limitations, availability of vehicles, timing and cost of natural gas fuel station construction and availability and resources of natural gas conversion companies and equipment providers. The forward-looking statements made herein speak only as of the date of this press release and the company undertakes no obligation to publicly update such forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.

SOURCE: Clean Energy Fuels Corp.

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