Federal Incentives for Dairy Can Enhance Carbon-Reduction Efforts, NMPF’s McCloskey Says
Sharing how his own farm is evolving to carbon neutrality and how the dairy sector is aggressively moving to become carbon-neutral by 2050, Indiana dairy farmer Mike McCloskey highlighted ways federal incentives can further help dairy toward its net-zero emissions...
DOE Demonstration of RNG Locomotive Nearing Completion
OptiFuel Systems, a system integrator of Cummins and BAE Systems hybrid power products for decarbonizing the rail, marine, and microgrid power market, is in the process of finalizing a $2.6 million U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grant to demonstrate a pre-production...
Is renewable natural gas a serious alternative to ‘electrify everything’?
While wind and solar power and electric vehicles tend to dominate the conversation around preventing catastrophic climate change, electricity and transportation aren’t the whole picture. The world also needs to act quickly to reduce emissions from other sources, like...
Roeslein Alternative Energy and Partners Win Grant to create new value chains on U.S. farms
A new federal grant will allow a research team led by ABC Member Roeslein Alternative Energy, Iowa State University, and Penn State to develop new methods of turning biomass and manure into fuel. The five-year, $10 million grant from the USDA’s National Institute for...
Shell secures biogas supply as part low-carbon shift
Royal Dutch Shell said on Tuesday it has agreed to buy renewable gas, known as biomethane, from Denmark's Nature Energy, in what the smaller company termed the largest deal of its kind. More >>
Cost, Environmental Impacts Of Food Waste Recycling Options (Part II of II from BioCycle)
An in-depth environmental and economic assessment was conducted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in collaboration with Eastern Research Group, on food waste recycling options. This two-part article provides a summary of the study’s findings. A detailed...
Food Waste Recycling — Environmental And Economic Assessment (Part I of II from BioCycle)
Throughout Massachusetts, anaerobic digestion (AD) facilities, municipal composting programs, and farm-based composters and digesters are working to divert food waste from landfills and waste-to-energy (WTE) facilities. The pace of this work increased in 2014 with...
Dairies can lead way to future
“We’re looking to become carbon-neutral,” says Lee Kinnard of Kinnard Farms. “We’re big no-tillers, we plant cover crops and with our new digester we’re getting closer.” An anaerobic digester system at the 7,500-cow Casco-area farm recently began converting manure to...
Oregon PUC adopts rules for RNG program
The Public Utilities Commission of Oregon on July 16 adopted initial rules to implement a bill signed into law last year that sets voluntary renewable natural gas (RNG) goals for the state’s natural gas utilities. The bill, SB 98, was signed into law by Oregon Gov....