Ohio Food Manufacturer JM Smucker Achieves Zero Waste Goal with help from Grind2Energy
Best known for its brands like Smucker’s Preserves, Folgers, Jif and Milk-Bone, The J.M. Smucker Company recently announced it had achieved the company's 2020 goal of reducing 95 percent of waste from landfills a year early. One of the key learnings they discovered...
ABC and 3 Trade Associations Commend New Bill by Reps. Stefanik and Peters to Boost Baseload Renewable Power
Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Congressman Scott Peters (D-CA) yesterday introduced the Renewable Electricity Tax Credit Equalization Act, a bill that renews and extends a tax credit which has been expired since 2017. This fix is critical to the biomass,...
Dover, MA Transfer Station adds food waste program
Dover’s Transfer Station has installed a designated area for residents to dispose of their food waste. This includes bones, shells, corn cobs, tea bags, coffee grounds, and all meats, eggs and fish. All food must be bagged. Residents may use any type of bag — plastic,...
Investors smell an opportunity in ripe waste market
US investors are beginning to smell an opportunity in the waste-to-energy market, where livestock dung and food garbage is traded, with interest being fuelled by new state laws and demand from companies such as UPS. After a lull in investor interest stretching back a...
Power To Gas: NREL project converts renewable electricity into renewable methane for storage in existing natural gas pipelines
Southern California Gas Co. and Electrochaea today announced the commissioning of the nation's first scalable biomethanation reactor system at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Energy System Integration Facility in Golden,...
Colorado City Readies for New Biogas Treatment and RNG Fueling Project
A new renewable natural gas (RNG) project is moving forward in the City of Longmont, Colo. In late July, contractor CGRS Inc. brought in Maverick Steel Inc. to begin erecting the steel on a site at the northwest corner of the city’s wastewater treatment plant (WWTP)....
Roeslein Alternative Energy and Smithfield Complete RNG Transmission Line in Missouri
This project is part of the Monarch Bioenergy joint venture with ABC member Roeslein Alternative Energy to capture methane emissions from Smithfield’s Northern Missouri hog farms and convert them into pipeline-quality natural gas. A low-pressure natural gas...
EPA grants 31 small refinery exemptions for RFS
EPA is granting 31 small refinery RFS exemptions for the 2018 compliance year, as well as 6 denials. The estimated volume of gasoline and diesel exempted is 13,420 million gallons; the estimated renewable volume obligations (RVO) exempted is 1,430 million RINs...The...
American Biogas Council Condemns EPA’s Continued Abuse of RFS Waivers
“The EPA and Trump’s Administration clearly have a flagrant disregard for the livelihood of farmers, rural America and renewable fuel producers of all kinds,” said Patrick Serfass, Executive Director of the American Biogas Council. “In a year in which agricultural...