Paul Staples

hydrogen energy technologies. In 1991, he restructured Clean Air Now (“CAN”), an inactive non-profit 501(c)(3) organization with a pioneering history in the modern-day environmental movement. CAN was the vehicle used by Staples & Associates to fund and develop the CAN Solar Hydrogen Vehicle Project at Xerox, in El Segundo. Mr. Staples also spearheaded an effort to re-organize the AB2766 funding process, legislation passed by the California State Assembly to provide funds through vehicle registration fees for public/private partnerships to fund pollution reduction projects. This effort resulted in AB2766 becoming a more effective program for funding projects to develop and deploy technologies with significant air pollution abatement impact. In 1993, Mr. Staples co-wrote and submitted two proposals to AB2766 and the White House Technology Reinvestment Project (“TRP”) for funding the CAN Solar Hydrogen Vehicle Project at Xerox. The TRP was a federal public/private partnership-funding program developed by the White House for defense conversion. Both proposals were funded and the CAN Solar Hydrogen Vehicle Project at Xerox in El Segundo became the world’s first commercially permitted solar hydrogen generating facility and hydrogen converted ICE vehicle fleet. In 2006, Mr. Staples developed the City of Santa Monica’s hydrogen vehicle and fueling infrastructure program and project for its Environmental and Public Works Department. The project led to a five-city, six-site funded program involving the cities of Santa Monica, Burbank, Riverside, Santa Anna, and Ontario, and the South Coast Air Quality Management District headquarters. Each location provided hydrogen fueling stations for thirty hydrogen-converted Toyota Prius Hybrids.