Waste Management said on Monday it would buy smaller rival Advanced Disposal Services for about $3 billion, as the top waste management services provider looks to expand its footprint in the eastern United States.
The offer of $33.15 represents a premium of about 22 percent to Advanced Disposal’s closing price of $27.14 on Friday and would be Waste Management’s biggest acquisition in more than nine years.
By CNBC
Southern California Gas Co., or SoCalGas, on Thursday said it received a $3 million grant to further develop the technology that creates renewable energy from the decomposition of organic material at wastewater treatment plants.
SoCalGas said the California Energy Commission awarded the company $3 million to fund the next phase of development for the Hydrothermal Processing technique.
By Biomass Magazine
The power source of the future for large machines is not electricity, but LNG, CNG and biomethane – that’s the message Case Construction Equipment delivered to a packed press conference at Bauma yesterday (April 8).
There were gasps from the audience as the first images of a new concept vehicle – Project Tetra – were flashed up on the screen behind CNH Industrial CEO Hubertus Muhlhauser and president of construction Carl Gustaf Göransson, who delivered the presentation.
By Tom Stone, IVT
Rye, New York-based Sims Metal Management recently unveiled its multi-year strategic growth plan during its investor strategy day April 8.
Sims’ executive leadership team shared plans to drive growth through 2025, which include expanding within the company’s existing metals and e-recycling businesses, as well as establishing new businesses that will reduce waste and produce renewable energy.
By Waste Today
The Pacific Coast has seen significant success in combating air pollution since the dawn of this century. Our state and regional neighbors — Oregon, California and British Columbia — have each established policies to combat emissions and pollution from the transportation sector.
This month the Washington state Senate may determine the fate of Washington’s current initiative, House Bill 1110, to finally join its Pacific brethren in taking a stand against the negative health and climate impacts associated with emissions of carbon, particulate matter and greenhouse gases from fossil fuel use.
By Sam Wade, Herald Net
Gevo, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEVO) announced today that it has signed a binding, definitive Construction License Agreement with Praj Industries Ltd., dated April 4, 2019, to commercialize the production of renewable isobutanol using sugary-based feedstocks, such as juice, syrup and molasses made of sugarcane and sugar beets (the “Construction License Agreement”). Pursuant to the Construction License Agreement, Praj will provide engineering procurement and construction services to certain third party customers using a process design package that incorporates Gevo’s proprietary isobutanol biocatalyst and is designed for use with sugary-based feedstocks (the “PDP”). The PDP is jointly owned by Gevo and Praj. Gevo has granted a license to Praj that would allow Praj to provide such services to certain third party customers.
By Global News Wire
We all know that there are vehicles powered with petrol, electricity and gas. Now there is a new way to drive engines, and it begins in our household rubbish bin. This is the aim of the Life Methamorphosis project: to achieve biomethane from organic waste, turning it into renewable gas in the following five steps:
1. Recycling.
Each inhabitant of the city of Barcelona generates about 1.5 kilos of waste daily. 2.5 million kilos of rubbish every day of which only 40% is recycled. “With all the organic waste that is generated we can produce enough biomethane to power 10,000 cars to travel around 15,000 kilometres every year”, points out Andrew Shepherd, the SEAT engineer who heads the Methamorphosis project. Of all the rubbish collected at the Ecoparc 2 in Barcelona, biomethane is produced using the organic waste from the brown containers and whatever is useful from the grey containers. All of this raw material will be turned into biofuel.
By Webwire
Brightmark Energy, a San Francisco-based waste and energy development company, recently launched a biogas project in Yakima County, Washington, that will convert 150,000 gallons per day of dairy waste from up to 7,000 cows into 160,000 MMBtu of renewable natural gas (RNG) – the equivalent of 1.4 million gallons of gasoline – and other products each year. Collaborating as Augean Renewable Natural Gas (RNG), Brightmark Energy, Promus Energy, and DeRuyter Dairies developed the project. Brightmark Energy will manage the joint venture and Promus Energy, the original developer, will serve as the project manager.
By Business Wire
Fresh from his victory last time out at Circuit of The Americas, Colton Herta will be in new colors for this weekend’s Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama at Barber Motorsports Park. Harding Steinbrenner Racing announced that energy service company GESS International will be the primary sponsor of the team’s No. 88 Honda-powered Indy car for this weekend’s race as well as an associate sponsor at the following week’s round in Long Beach.
“We’re thrilled that GESS International is joining Harding Steinbrenner Racing at Barber Motorsports Park,” said team co-owner Mike Harding. “I truly believe they are making a difference in the biogas community and know they will make a difference in the IndyCar community too. ”
By Racer
As milk prices plummet, Oregon’s largest dairy hopes to cash in on another kind of commodity produced by its cows: Manure.
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. Because it’s designated renewable energy, the manure-produced biogas sells for 10 times more than fossil fuel natural gas, Threemile general manager Marty Myers told a state Department of Treasury panel last summer, as the company sought tax-exempt state bonds to help pay for the project.
By Statesmen Journal
