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...
DeRuyter Dairy Producing Biogas Pt 1
A partnership with Promus Energy and ABC members Brightmark Energy and Regenis has made it possible for Central Washington dairy to begin converting dairy manure into renewable natural gas. Dan DeRuyter of George DeRuyter and Sons Dairy in Outlook says a natural gas...
WI dairies lead way in energy efficiency
The statewide energy efficiency and renewable resources program is honoring 18 winners, each chosen for their efforts to improve energy efficiency in Wisconsin. Later this year, Focus on Energy will join the winners’ respective utilities to honor that commitment in an...
Sustain Dane Now Hiring: Executive Director
If you are passionate about our mission focused upon sustainability, enjoy managing a small team of equally passionate professionals, and love rising to meet challenges, then you should consider becoming Sustain Dane’s new Executive Director. Under the direction of...
Dane County begins turning gas from landfill’s trash into vehicle fuel
Trash thrown away by Dane County residents will now help reduce greenhouse gas emissions as the county begins turning the gas released from decomposing garbage into transportation fuel. ABC member, Dane county had long been trapping the methane and other gases emitted...