Inland leaders defend natural gas in homes, businesses
There’s no need to take away Californians’ gas-powered stoves and heaters and raise their energy costs to fight climate change, Inland elected officials, business leaders and representatives of the natural gas industry said Monday, Aug. 5. The Inland Empire Economic...
Smithfield completes first renewable natural gas line in Missouri
As part of its “manure-to-energy” project, Smithfield Foods Inc. announced on Aug. 5 that it connected a low-pressure natural gas transmission line from a company hog farm to the Milan, Missouri, natural gas pipeline. Smithfield said that the renewable natural gas...
Milk Price Improvement a Chance to Move Forward
[From ABC member National Milk Producers Federation] Economic recoveries don’t happen overnight. But we are starting to see enough hopeful signs to become more confident that, despite continued trade turbulence, better times may be near. While not exactly a boom, the...
American Biogas Council Hails Move to Promote Nutrient Recovery of Agricultural Biomass
[From ABC member Diamond Scientific] The American Biogas Council (ABC), a trade organization that represents the biogas industry in the US, has hailed the Agricultural Environmental Stewardship Act recently introduced by Congressmen Ron Kind and Tom Reed. The bill...
Everyone’s Talking About RNG – Here’s What You Need To Know
[From ABC member Clean Energy] Renewable energy comes from sources that are not depleted when used, such as wind or sunlight. But did you know that there is a renewable fuel that can be used to fill up the tank and power a heavy-duty truck, concrete mixer or refuse...
Iowa Republicans care about clean energy, too
[Op-ed by ABC Director Bryan Sievers] As a former state legislator who has heard just about every opinion under the sun, I'm never surprised when some people claim only liberals and Democrats care about renewable energy and conservation. That claim couldn't be further...
Air Liquide biomethane production plant celebrates first birthday
A year on, and the plant by ABC member Air Liquide in Walnut, Mississippi, receives 350,000 metric tonnes of waste yearly, allowing it to inject biomethane into the network to heat 4,500 homes. The biomethane plant purifies household waste gas provided by the landfill...
Gov. Brown signs renewable gas bill
Renewable natural gas is set to have an increasingly large part in Oregon’s energy supply after Gov. Kate Brown signed Senate Bill 98 on Wednesday. This bill sets goals to add as much as 30% renewable natural gas into Oregon’s pipeline system by 2050. “Oregon has long...
Report: Digestate as Fertilizer
The report Digestate as Fertilizer published by the German Biogas Association, an ABC member, presents concepts, products and solutions that are already being applied in practice in order to ensure sustainable biogas production in the long term. The report was...