NMPF Cheers EPA Efforts to Exempt Manure Air Emission Reporting Under EPCRA
The National Milk Producers Federation today commended the Environmental Protection Agency for issuing a final rule to codify its earlier interpretation that air emissions from manure are not reportable under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act. ...
GESS International announces $240M worth of biogas projects in Cassia County
GESS International has announced a $240 million investment in Cassia County. The company will build six anaerobic digester facilities near Burley, Idaho, totaling $40 million for each digester and making it a part of the company’s first tranche biogas plants in the...
Bittersweet weekend for Harding Steinbrenner Racing at Detroit Grand Prix
The #88 GESS Capstone Honda finished the Detroit Grand Prix presented by Lear doubleheader weekend with 12th place finishes on both Saturday and Sunday. Rookie Colton Herta qualified for Saturday’s dual in fifth position and for Sunday’s dual in fourth position. “This...
Breathe Clean, Seattle: Cleanest Fleet Yet Now Rolling in Emerald City
Now serving Seattle neighborhoods and businesses, the cleanest fleet in the City’s history includes 91 vehicles powered by renewable natural gas (RNG) and supplied by ABC member Waste Management. The launch of Seattle’s new green fleet of recycling, compost and...
Oregon Senate passes 5-year ban on ‘fracking’ for oil and gas
A bill now heading for Governor Kate Brown's desk will ban the practice of "fracking" for oil or gas until 2025, state Democrats heralded on Wednesday. Fracking is the common nickname for hydraulic fracturing, a technique for blasting water, sand and chemicals into...
Turning poop into power: California dairies appeal for more state climate change money
Joey Airoso last year hooked his dairy into a huge California renewable energy project, a network of farms that turns the gas leaking off manure from 35,000 cows into a biofuel. It wasn’t cheap. The total project cost more than $30 million, but a grant from the...
Breweries Become Bastions of Clean Energy
Beer breweries all across the US have become stalwarts of renewable energy, using everything from solar energy to waste-to-energy methods to make the brewing, canning and distribution process more energy efficient. The following are a few breweries making major...
Flint will turn food waste into energy at water pollution plant
New equipment at Flint’s Water Pollution Plant will start turning food waste into energy. BioWorks Energy LLC, which has operated the plant since 2009, is purchasing a depackager. The machine will process packaged food waste, turn it into a waste stream and generate...
SoCalGas Moving Forward with Dairy Biomethane Projects
Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) has received approval from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to begin the next phase of construction of four new dairy biomethane projects in California. Earlier this month, the CPUC approved contracts between...