Biogas Industry Goes Mainstream, Sponsors Two Teams at Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama
This weekend, the biogas industry breaks through to mainstream America on the IndyCars driven by Colton Herta with Harding Steinbrenner racing and Patricio O’Ward with Carlin Motorsport at the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama. Producing and using biogas replaces...
Harding Steinbrenner Racing Partners with GESS International
GESS International, an ABC member, is joining Harding Steinbrenner Racing as primary sponsor of the #88 Honda-powered Indy car for this weekend’s Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama and as an associate sponsor of the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach. An energy service...
New York Passes Statewide Organics Recycling
Thank you American Biogas Council members for taking action to make New York the 7th state to pass an organics recycling law! Thank you Governor Andrew Cuomo, Senator Kaminsky and Assemblyman Englebright for your leadership. What’s in the law? Any food waste...
Nuclear, Biogas and the Future of Ohio’s Energy Sector
Diversifying Ohio’s energy production portfolio could create new jobs and help keep utility prices steady for ratepayers. Installing anaerobic digesters at water resource recovery facilities (WRRF), also known as wastewater treatment plants, in the Buckeye State...
Manure is big business at Oregon’s largest dairy with conversion to natural gas
Boardman’s Threemile Canyon Farms is partnering with a Portland investment fund in a $55 million project to convert methane from the waste produced by its 70,000 cows into natural gas, which will be sold to power buses and garbage trucks in Southern California....
Tracking sludge flow for better wastewater treatment and more biogas
A new way of tracking how sewage sludge flows during thermal treatment could help engineers design better wastewater treatment plants and boost production of biogas. Researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, demonstrated how the flow behaviour of sludge...
Running effective organics collection programs
As the zero-waste movement gains momentum, so does the public’s desire to responsibly dispose of what consumes nearly one-third of municipal waste—food scraps. The uptick in demand has resulted in a boom of municipal organics curbside collection programs in recent...
Biogas from organic waste could replace 90% of the diesel fuel used in California
“If we used all the organic waste available, we could produce approximately 350 billion m3 of biogas per year, equivalent to 2 billion gallons of petrol and enough to replace 90% of the diesel fuel used in California.” As affirmed by Julia Levin, Executive Director of...
Waste Management unveils environmentally friendly fleet
Waste Management, an ABC member, unveiled its newest compressed natural gas-powered disposal trucks on Wednesday that will service Calcasieu and Cameron parishes and residential and commercial customers in Vinton, Westlake and Iowa, La., in hopes of providing cleaner...