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...
Utah’s rotten, stinky food can now be transformed into natural gas and fertilizer. Grocery stores and restaurants rejoice.
Imagine Utah as home to a voracious beast, able to consume 5 million gallons of food scraps — from rotten lettuce and rancid hamburger to spoiled milk and dirty frying oil. Utah’s first anaerobic food digester revved up in late February and, as of last week, was...
Final E15/RIN reform rule under review by OMB
The U.S. EPA’s final E15/RIN market reform rule is under review by the White House Office of Management and Budget. The agency is expected to release the rule before the June 1 start of the summer driving season. The EPA sent the final rule to the OMB on May 23....
U.S. lawmaker wants EPA’s use of biofuel waivers investigated
Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth on Wednesday asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Inspector General to investigate why the agency vastly expanded its use of waivers to exempt small refineries from the nation’s biofuel law. The request, made in...