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BioCycle REFOR19 Call For Papers
BioCycle REFOR19, BioCycle’s 19th Annual conference on Renewable Energy From Organics Recycling and the Official Conference of the American Biogas Council, is now accepting abstracts now for presentations on October 29-30, 2019. For suggested topics,...
Judge rules EPA must enforce Obama-era landfill pollution regs
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must begin enforcing pollution regulations that were set for landfills under the Obama administration. Landfills are the third-largest source of methane pollution in the U.S., releasing the highly heat-trapping gas into the...
Wyden, colleagues intro bill to overhaul energy tax code
Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and 25 colleagues introduced legislation Thursday to overhaul the federal tax code to support an innovative, low-carbon economy. They said the Clean Energy for America Act would consolidate the current 44...
American Biogas Council Commends the Introduction of the Clean Energy for America Act
The American Biogas Council (ABC) released the following statement in response to the introduction of Senator Ron Wyden’s (D-OR) Technology Neutral Energy Tax Reform bill, the Clean Energy for America Act. Senator Wyden continues...
Will your grant to replace your old truck with a Near-Zero truck affect your tax payment– not necessarily.
The good news is that you have received a generous grant from California to replace your old truck with a clean Near-Zero truck. As you celebrate your good fortune, your bookkeeper asks if you have to pay tax on the grant. Another provision of the new federal tax law...
Smithfield Foods and RAE Partner to Produce Renewable Energy while Restoring Missouri’s Natural Environment
Smithfield Foods, Inc. and ABC member Roeslein Alternative Energy (RAE) have formed a joint venture called Monarch Bioenergy to produce renewable natural gas (RNG) across Smithfield’s hog farms in Missouri. This partnership converts manure collected from Smithfield...
If U.S. Emissions Rose In 2018 Despite Clean Energy Growth, How Can We Meet Climate Goals?
New research finds the United States’ energy mix is rapidly decarbonizing largely due to economics, as coal-fired generation keeps retiring in favor of cheaper clean energy additions, but U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions still rose 2.5% in 2018. Although that may...
Climate change being fuelled by soil damage – report
Hurting the soil affects the climate in two ways: it compromises the growth of plants taking in carbon from the atmosphere, and it releases soil carbon previously stored by worms taking leaf matter underground. There's three times more carbon in the soil than in the...
New Yorkers’ poop will soon be used to fuel their own homes
New Yorkers will soon be cooking with their own gas. The poop of Big Apple residents is being turned into methane at Brooklyn’s Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant — and the gas will now be used to fuel up to 5,000 local homes. “We have found a gas well in the...
Truck Drivers Like the Performance of Near Zero RNG Trucks
Natural gas trucks have been tested and proven to have enough power to meet all of your needs and accomplish the same work that diesel engines do, and according to some drivers, even better! Natural Gas trucks are effective and durable despite one's uphill/downhill...