Abstract
The article deals with the issues of environmental safety in the operation of motor vehicles, which are one of the leaders in greenhouse gas emissions into the environment. The level of motorization of the country's cities, providing the social side of life, proportionally leads to the development of environmental problems. The article considers the main factors of transport use in different regions of Kazakhstan and their negative impact on the environment. The analysis of the key problems of public transport, more than a third of which are the percentage of greenhouse gas emissions and harmful substances into the atmosphere. The main directions of environmental safety, the necessity of methodological and methodical study on a qualitatively new basis of the problems of the use of natural gas as an alternative motor fuel. The foreign experience of using fuel from alternative sources is analyzed.