Orange County (Eco?) Choppers
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- June
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The boys over at Orange County Choppers are trying to go green. I’ll let The Learning Channel explain:
AMERICAN CHOPPER: Chesapeake Energy Bike
Premieres Thursday, June 25 at 9PM (ET/PT)
The guys at Orange County Choppers go green, attempting to build the first clean-burning natural gas powered chopper for Chesapeake Energy Corporation. This project puts their ingenuity and vision to the test—can the OCC team create a bike that’s all chopper but still energy efficient? Over at Paul Jr. Designs, Jr. gets his new company off the ground by landing his first client, Coleman, who hire him to put a new spin on a current product. Meanwhile, back at OCC, Mikey finds himself questioning his relationship with his father and his role at Orange County Choppers.
Just for anyone who still doesn’t realize it, the “O” in OCC is for Orange County, NY, part of the Hudson
Valley.
The TJN photo, by the way, is from 2004 and shows Paul Teutul Sr., OCC’s founder and one of the stars of the television series “American Chopper,” signing the forehead of Nicholas Barrett, 7, of Old Bridge, N.J., at the International Motorcycle Show at the Jacob Javitz Center in Manhattan.
Chesapeake Energy Corporation, according to its Web site, is “the number one independent producer of natural gas in the nation and the most active driller of new wells in the U.S.”
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Journal News staff writer Greg Clary writes Earth Watch, reporting on environmental issues in the lower Hudson region. Clary has been a reporter, editor and columnist at the Journal News since 1988 and has covered police and courts, transportation, municipal government, development and the environment in the Lower Hudson Valley, among other topics. 
Laura Incalcaterra covers the environment, open space and zoning and planning issues for The Journal News. A Boston College graduate, Laura grew up in Rockland, attended East Ramapo schools and has worked for The Journal News since 1993. Laura has written features and covered North Rockland, crime, government and a host of other issues.
Mike Risinit covers Patterson and Kent in Putnam County, as well as environmental topics touching on the Hudson River and the Great Swamp. Risinit has been a reporter at The Journal News since 1998.
