Draft legislation includes new tax credit for biogas-RNG projects
The much discussed draft legislation know as the Build Back Better bill or reconciliation package includes a number of benefits to help grow the biogas industry in the US, including a new tax credit for Biogas-RNG/Heat projects, extensions of several other tax credits...
11 CFO tips for riding the rising tide in ESG activism
"There's a tectonic shift happening right now in investor sentiment that is moving capital at scale into sustainable strategies,” Paul Bodnar, global head of sustainable investing at BlackRock, said...Among the companies in the Standard & Poor’s 100, 92% percent...
Waste Management eyes Pennsylvania, elsewhere for landfill gas plants
Waste Management, one of the nation’s leading waste collection and disposal companies and an ABC member, is looking to build a new renewable natural gas facility somewhere in Pennsylvania as it further builds up its landfill-gas capability. WM is increasing their...
Congressman Paul Tonko Receives Energy Vision Awards for Advancing Renewable Fuels
At its 15th annual awards event last night, the nonprofit Energy Vision presented sustainability awards to Congressman Paul Tonko of New York, the City of Topeka, Generate Capital, and Glenfiddich/William Grant & Sons, for their achievements in advancing renewable...
UGI Receives Regulatory Approval for a Renewable Natural Gas Pilot Project
UGI Utilities has received regulatory approval from the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to purchase renewable natural gas as part of a five-year pilot program. The pilot, the first of its kind in Pennsylvania, is intended to explore how UGI Utilities can...
Welcome New Member: Nature Energy!
Nature Energy is a Danish RNG producer looking into developing anaerobic digestion (AD) projects in the US. Nature Energy's projects will be large scale AD plants focusing on the co-digestion of various biological materials like manure, deep litter, food waste,...
Smithfield wins World Sustainability Award for manure-to-energy programs
Smithfield Foods is honored to receive the World Sustainability Awards' prestigious "Profit with a Purpose" award. The company is recognized for aligning sustainability and profitability through its innovative renewable natural gas (RNG) programs, which significantly...
Seaspan Starts Canada’s First Marine Test of Renewable Natural Gas
Canadian ferry operator Seaspan Ferries has become the first Canadian marine company to pilot the use of Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its ferry operations. Seaspan expects that data from the pilot will confirm that, by using RNG,...
Biogas plant makes fuel, money for Pima County
Pima County has started turning the methane gas from a sewage treatment plant into home heating fuel, and money. At the Tres Rios Water Reclamation Facility, the county's main treatment plant near Ina Road and I-10, the county used to burn the gas to generate...