LIPA trustees will vote Wednesday on a power contract for a planned facility that’s expected to be the region’s first to convert commercial food scraps into biogas to fuel a small power plant and vehicles. The $90 million plant by ABC member American Organic Energy...

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. announced it would convert all its natural gas fuel to its renewable product, Redeem, by 2025 as it positions itself to offer the cleanest available fuel alternative to diesel through a broad distribution network. The plan comes as regulatory...

What was once the second largest dairy in the state of Oregon has officially been sold. Lost Valley Farm, originally owned by Greg te Velde, has been purchased by the lone bidder, Canyon Farm LLC, for a hefty price tag of $66.7 million. Previously a 13,000-cow...

U.S. EPA retroactively granted five new small refinery exemptions for 2017, releasing them from their obligations under the Renewable Fuel Standard. The five new small refinery exemptions reduced the 2017 renewable volume obligation (RVO) for biomass-based diesel by...

Oregon lawmakers are considering tightening regulations for large dairies and other confined animal feeding operations, following the regulatory disaster at Lost Valley Farm. The eastern Oregon dairy, at one time the state’s second-largest, was shut down and sold last...

Underlying the policy debate on energy is a fault line – a chasm between two basically different approaches. Not the usual one between big centralized and small decentralized energy, although that is part of it. This goes deeper. It concerns the basic, often unspoken,...

With prices for renewable electricity low in many states, biogas producers are turning to the renewable natural gas marketplace. This road map is a valuable navigation tool. There is a national trend to reposition biogas-producing assets into renewable fuel production...

Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) today announced George Minter, the company’s regional vice president of external affairs & environmental policy, was named “Renewable Natural Gas Champion” by Climate Resolve, a  Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization that...

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. announced an increased demand for renewable natural gas (RNG) from the refuse sector, particularly in California, where refuse trucks are fueled by the very solid waste they haul. The city of Fresno signed a two-year agreement with Clean...