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Clean Energy Projects Turn Landfills into Community Assets

Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognized the accomplishments of numerous landfill methane partners who are generating clean, renewable energy while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. 'Across the nation, EPA is helping transform landfill waste into energy wealth,' said Bill Wehrum, acting assistant administrator for EPA's Office of Air and Radiation. 'We are ...

Jan. 24, 2007

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Energy projects transform trash to green power / landfill gas projects protect health while fueling industry and job creation (HQ)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognized six landfill methane capture projects and partners for their innovation in generating renewable energy and protecting the climate and people’s health by reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. EPA has assisted with more than 490 landfill gas energy projects over the past 16 years, transforming waste into a green community asset. ...

Jan. 19, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Turning landfills into community assets and cutting greenhouse gases

EPA today recognized the accomplishments of numerous landfill methane partners that are generating renewable energy while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. At the 11th Annual Landfill Methane Outreach Program Conference & Project Expo in Washington, D.C., EPA gave recognition awards to government and private organizations that are helping the agency deliver energy and environmental benefits ...

Jan. 10, 2008

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Landfill gas set to generate income for the Scottish Borders

A renewable energy project by Scottish Borders Council will create enough green electricity to power more than 1,000 homes, while cutting annual carbon emissions by the equivalent of around 30,000 tonnes. The project, at Easter Langlee Waste Disposal site near Galashiels, Scotland, takes away the local authority’s burden of controlling and disposing of methane. The landfill gas scheme is funded ...

Aug. 20, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

BioSoil Farm featured in Daily Gazette – Glenville’s BioSoil Farm transforms trash into treasure

When you eat a banana, do you ever wonder what happens to the peel after you toss it in the garbage? It won’t end up producing methane gas in a landfill if Chad Currin, founder and CEO of BioSoil Farm has anything to say about it. Currin looks at waste bound for a landfill not as something that’s at the end of its life cycle. Instead, he sees it as material waiting to be converted ...

Mar. 1, 2018

By BioSoil Farm, Inc.

Methane to markets soars: US$4.5m provides a global clean energy boost

Capturing methane from landfills and other sources is paving the way to a clean, green energy source and reducing greenhouse gases in the fight against climate change. Through the Methane to Markets Partnership (M2M), EPA is funding 20 projects that will help 12 countries increase their capture and use of methane from the landfill, coal, agriculture, and oil and natural gas sectors. These ...

Oct. 10, 2008

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

FirmGreen Launches Research & Development Lab in U.S.

FirmGreen announces the launch of FirmGreen Labs, its Green Energy Research & Development facility in Kokomo, Indiana, a suburb of Indianapolis — host city to Super Bowl XLVI. Kokomo, known as the ‘City of Firsts’ because of the large number of patents awarded its citizens over the last 100+ years, continues that history of innovation as home to FirmGreen’s first ...

Feb. 6, 2012

By FirmGreen, Inc.

Biogas leaks found fast

Geotech recently contacted users of its gas leak finder to check its performance. Introduced to help AD plant operator safety, retain valuable gas, minimise odour and maintain licence compliance, the Geotech TDL-500 also has a GPS option which helps in landfill and pipeline gas leak finding. The tunable laser diode of the TDL-500 detects methane (CH4) at 1 ppm and is ATEX certified. A ...

Nov. 18, 2011

By QED Environmental Systems Ltd.

North Carolina’s renewable energy production initiatives get a boost from GE

North Carolina’s renewable energy production initiatives recently received a boost with the formal opening of a new landfill gas-to-energy plant in Durham, the state’s fourth largest city. Built by the landfill gas project developer Methane Power Inc., the energy plant is powered by three of GE’s (NYSE: GE) containerized and ecomagination-approved, JGC 320 Jenbacher landfill gas engines. GE’s ...

Dec. 17, 2009

By General Electric

Key to Clean Energy is Government’s own commitments – Redesdale

As the UK Government hosts the Clean Energy Ministerial Event in London, ‘Environmental Parliamentarian of the Year’ Lord Redesdale has said that the UK can become a world leader in renewable energy – but only if the Government does more to deliver its own commitments. Lord Redesdale, a Liberal Democrat peer, was recognised for his commitment to the environment and clean energy ...

Apr. 25, 2012

By The Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association (ADBA)

FirmGreen gets project of the year recognition from US EPA

FirmGreen, Inc. (FGI) was recognized today at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP) annual conference with a Project of the Year Award for its Green Energy Center (GEC). The high Btu landfill gas utilization project, located near Columbus, Ohio is a public-private partnership with the Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio (SWACO). “From the ...

Jan. 13, 2009

By FirmGreen, Inc.

Defra announce Anaerobic Digestion Loan Fund at UK AD & Biogas 2011

Defra Minister Lord Henley has announced a £10m Anaerobic Digestion Loan Fund (ADLF) for new AD plants in his speech to the conference at UK AD & Biogas 2011. The ADLF, which will be administered by the Waste Resources Action Programme, will lend amounts ranging from £50,000 - £1m to support the development of new AD capacity in England, in conjunction with investment from ...

Jul. 7, 2011

By The Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association (ADBA)

OFT recommendations will help anaerobic digestion

ADBA Chairman and Lib Dem peer Lord Redesdale has welcomed the publication today [Thursday] of the OFT’s Market Study into Organic Waste. The Market Study was prompted by the water regulator Ofwat, to explore what barriers exist to competition in the treatment of sewage sludge, and the involvement of Water and Sewage Companies in the treatment of other organic waste. ADBA has been ...

Sep. 22, 2011

By The Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association (ADBA)

Cortec® Corporation Launches Biobased Film Products for Marine and Anaerobic Digestion Markets

Cortec® Corporation, a leading bioplastics producer located in Minnesota, USA, is pleased to announce the launch and commercial availability of EcoOcean™. This new bioplastic offers a unique combination of environmental and performance benefits previously unattainable—flexibility and strength; commercial and low-temperature backyard ...

Aug. 8, 2011

By Cortec Corporation

B&W Calls on U.S. EPA to Limit Methane Emissions From Landfills

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. (B&W) (NYSE:BW) has provided formal comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed emissions rules for municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills, calling for more stringent limits on emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas that plays a role in climate change. Methane, which is generated in landfills by the decomposition of organic ...

Oct. 26, 2015

By Babcock & Wilcox

DEP to Hold Two Alternative Energy Workshops for Teachers

The Department of Environmental Protection announced today it will host two summer workshops to help teachers learn about alternative energy. The workshops, hosted by DEP in conjunction with Waste Management and Fresco Green Building Supplies, will offer presentations and site visits to a landfill and a house built using "green" technology."As energy and the environment continue to change, it is ...

May 13, 2011

By Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection

College Students Lead the U.S. towards a Greener Future

(Washington, D.C.) Students from Western Washington University drove from Washington State to Washington, D.C., in a car entirely powered by biodiesel fuel made from recovered landfill methane. Northwestern students built a solar powered system that provides electricity to a rural town in Panama, miles away from any electric power grid. The University of Virginia team designed and built a ...

Apr. 26, 2007

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Department of Defense Ready to Generate Clean Energy from Landfill Methane Using FlexEnergy Technology

FlexEnergy Inc (www.flexenergy.com), a clean tech company with a breakthrough solution that generates clean energy from methane with near-zero emissions, has successfully installed its first commercial order of the Flex Powerstation™ FP250 at the Department of Defense's (DoD) Fort Benning, GA Army base. The Flex Powerstation™ will convert landfill gas into enough renewable electricity ...

Sep. 8, 2011

By Flex Energy Solutions

FirmGreen® Extends its Leadership in Renewable Fuels with PlasmaTech Deal

Today, FirmGreen Energy, Inc. (FGE®) announces completion of an agreement with PlasmaTech Caribbean Corporation (PlasmaTech) to become FirmGreen’s exclusive sub-Licensee of CO2 Wash® technology for the Caribbean region. Under this agreement, PlasmaTech has placed on order a CO2 Wash unit for a biogas to fuels project located in Puerto Rico. The project will utilize CO2 Wash technology to ...

Nov. 14, 2007

By FirmGreen, Inc.

POET, Sioux Falls renew partnership

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Feb. 25, 2019) – POET and the City of Sioux Falls today renewed a contract to power POET Biorefining – Chancellor with waste methane generated at the Sioux Falls Regional Landfill. For the last 10 years, the landfill has transported methane to POET via an 11-mile pipeline, offsetting fossil fuel use at the 120 million gallon-per-year facility. The new contract ...

Feb. 25, 2019

By Poet, LLC

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