Welcome New Member: American Gas Association!
The American Gas Association (AGA) represents more than 200 local energy companies committed to the safe and reliable delivery of clean natural gas to more than 71 million customers throughout the nation. AGA with its Sustainable Growth Committee chaired by ABC member...
What should Iowa agriculture look like in a post-COVID-19 world?
An Op-Ed by ABC Director, farmer and digester owner, Bryan Sievers, with Ray Gaesser and Kellie Blair. As if we needed yet another wake-up call, the novel coronavirus pandemic has exposed the vulnerability of the food system and Iowa agriculture. Global and national...
Biogas-To-RNG Project Developer Is Ready To Move The Needle
BioCycle interviewed Bob Powell, founder and CEO of Brightmark, about his company’s growth trajectory in the anaerobic digestion and RNG space. (BioCycle and Brightmark are both ABC members). In August 2016, Bob Powell founded Brightmark Energy “to think about...
US Gain becomes largest RNG supplier in Oregon
U.S. Gain, an ABC member and leader in development, procurement and distribution of renewable natural gas (RNG) for the transportation and energy markets becomes largest RNG supplier in Oregon, through supply agreements with Salem Area Mass Transit District, Gresham...
Longmont completes work on biogas conversion project
Longmont, Colorado trash trucks will now be fueled by biogas pulled from the city’s wastewater treatment plant. The city has completed a project begun in 2018 that converted the wastewater treatment plant into a renewable natural gas plant. The captured gas is then...
Rendall retiring from Vermont Gas, Lunderville to take over
The President and CEO of ABC member VGS, Don Rendall, announced his plans to step down in September 2020 after 6 years leading the company. The VGS Board of Directors has selected respected public and private sector leader Neale Lunderville as the next president and...
New ABC Mid-Atlantic Chapter member: Galli Engineering
Galli Engineering has officially joined ABC's new Mid-Atlantic Chapter. Galli Engineering is a design and permitting business specializing in the solid waste management industry, with approximately sixty permitted recycling facilities, transfer stations, and TSDF's in...
EPA delivers proposed rule to set 2021 RFS RVOs to OMB
While we won't see the actual volumes until the proposed rule is published, this is a good sign that the RFS continues to be administered on time. Based on past experience, timely publishing of the renewable fuel volume, or RVO,...
Reducing food waste emerges as key climate solution
A recent report laying out critical action items for addressing climate change found reducing food waste to be the most pressing solution in a long list aimed at keeping global warming to under 2˚C. Food isn't the report's only waste emphasis — bolstering and...