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...
Canadian Anaerobic Digestion Guideline
The Canadian Biogas Association (CBA), an ABC member, is developing an industry-led, national Anaerobic Digestion (AD) Guideline document. The AD Guideline provides recommended planning, design, and operational practices for AD facilities that process food and organic...
Brightmark Energy Acquires Wisconsin Dairy Biogas Project from Clean Fuel Partners; Clean Fuel Partners to Operate
ABC Members Brightmark Energy and Clean Fuel Partners announced a deal that would transfer ownership of the Dane County, WI manure and food waste digester to Brightmark Energy but retain the services of Clean Fuel Partners as operator of the facility. Clean Fuel...
Opposition To Defunding Low NOx Vehicles
The 42 undersigned organizations, including over a dozen ABC members, are working to clean California’s air and meet greenhouse gas emission reduction goals and want to work collaboratively with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to preserve funding for low NOx...
Two RFS Power Coalition Members Testify at EPA Hearing: It’s Time for the Federal Government to Do Its Job and Process eRIN Applications and Pathways
Today, the Biomass Power Association and American Biogas Council delivered testimony at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hearing in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Both witnesses called on the EPA to process applications that will allow biogas, biomass and...
Don’t let state regulators limit energy choice in California
As mayors of Diamond Bar, Rosemead and West Covina, we collectively represent more than 200,000 constituents in the San Gabriel Valley — constituents who work hard to provide for their families, and in some cases, their businesses. Like most Californians, one of the...
Natural Gas Truck Sales Are on the Rise
Retail sales of U.S. and Canadian Class 8 Natural Gas trucks have increased in 2019, reversing the declining trend from the year before, according to ACT Research’s Alternative Fuels Quarterly. As of May, year-to-date sales were up 43% and were also up 10% from...
Can Renewable Natural Gas Actually Compete With Diesel?
For truck fleets looking to cut fuel expenses and reliance on diesel — and to meet increasingly stringent emissions standards — renewable natural gas is becoming a hot commodity. There’s also the perk that comes from California’s low carbon fuel standard and the...