UPS hits the gas on greener delivery truck fleet
United Parcel Service Inc on Wednesday announced plans to buy more than 6,000 natural gas-powered trucks over three years and step up purchases of renewable natural gas (RNG) as part of a new $450 million investment to reduce the environmental impact of its...
DMT is Hiring
DMT Clear Gas Solutions is hiring. Currently, openings exist for the Oregon based ABC member for an Electrical Engineer and Cost and Procurement Manager. More >>
Deep Dive Into Food Waste Management (Sourcing To Digesting)
If you want to get deep into food waste management, a number of speakers will be covering a wide variety of issues at BioCycle REFOR19, the Annual Conference of the American Biogas Council in Madison, WI Oct 28-31. Featuring ABC members Environmental Law Institute,...
Money from manure
An excellent feature piece on Threemile Canyon Farms, Oregon’s largest dairy with 68,340 cattle, including 33,000 milking cows. In 2012, the farm built an anaerobic digester to capture methane emissions from all that manure and generate electricity. Now it's expanding...
Argonne National Laboratory Releases 2019 GREET Models
Argonne National Laboratory’s Systems Assessment Center has released their 2019 suite of GREET Models. The GREET model is a unique analytical tool that simulates the energy use and emissions output of carious vehicle and fuel combinations. It uses full life...
Evolution Of A Food Waste Digester
[BioCycle] The North State Rendering digester in California was originally set up to process food waste and FOG. They've had quite a run of figuring out depackaging, how to adjust the system to food waste contamination, the CA food waste recycling law, and solids in...
BioCycle REFOR19: Grow The Industry & Get Best Hotel Rate
Learn how regional dynamics relate to your locale … The BioCycle REFOR19 Conference (October 28-31, 2019, Madison, WI) Closing Roundtable Session, “Moving The Biogas, Nutrient Recovery Needle In Wisconsin” will be moderated by Joe Kramer, GDS Associates, Inc....
The startup helping Smithfield turn manure into a circular resource
When Amy Yoder became CEO of ABC member Anuvia Plant Nutrients in 2015, she had her work cut out for her. Although the Zellwood, Florida-based company was well on its way to developing products intended to bring large-scale sustainability to farmers by creating a...
Trump EPA Pledges Biofuel Boost to Compensate for SREs
The Trump administration is taking action to boost U.S. demand for biofuels under the RFS, as the president seeks to temper criticism from farmers and Midwest politicians before next year’s election. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of...