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Lansing — A ballot committee seeking to boost Michigan’s renewable energy mandate is ending a statewide petition drive after reaching an agreement with utility giants DTE Energy and Consumers Energy.
The state’s two largest utilities announced Friday they are targeting a “50 percent clean energy goal” by 2030, including investments to ensure that 25 percent of the electricity they sell comes from renewable sources by that time, along with energy efficiency programs.
By Jonathan Oosting, Detroit News Lansing Bureau.
DEQ: Clean Fuels Standard cuts nearly 1 million tons of pollution
By KTVZ News.
SALEM, Ore. - Oregon’s groundbreaking Clean Fuels Standard kept 929,105 tons of climate pollution from transportation out of the air in 2017, according to new calculations from the Department of Environmental Quality.
In its first two years, the Clean Fuels Standard reduced climate pollution by more than 1.7 million tons, the equivalent of taking nearly 365,000 cars off the road for an entire year, a news release Monday from the coalition Renew Oregon stated.
Report: It’s Time for NYC to Do Away With Diesel and Switch to RNG
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including Energy Vision, the New York League of Conservation Voters and WE ACT for Environmental Justice, are calling on New York City to stop buying heavy-duty diesel vehicles for its municipal fleets and to adopt alternatives that are available today.
Specifically, they are asking the city and Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to take the following actions:
- Stop allocating funds for the purchase of new heavy-duty diesel trucks and MTA diesel buses;
- Focus new heavy-duty vehicle purchases on the best diesel alternatives, such as electric vehicles or renewable natural gas (RNG) vehicles; and
- Make the necessary capital expenditures on infrastructure and fleet garage modifications to support implementation of these alternatives.
By Betsy Lillian, NGT News.
Xebec Partners with Sapio Group on Biogas Plants
Under the agreement, Sapio is entering into a minimum purchase order commitment for multiple Xebec biogas upgrading plants for a total value of €33 million ($39 million)) to be delivered over three years.
Sapio Group is the largest industrial gas company in Italy with over 1,800 employees and revenues of over €500 million ($590 million). Its business model includes the production and distribution of bio-liquefied natural gas (bio-LNG) throughout Italy.
Via Renewable Energy Magazine.
Democrats Sharpen Focus as Scott Pruitt Testifies Again on Capitol Hill
By Lisa Friedman & Coral Davenport, The New York Times.
WASHINGTON — Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, told a Senate panel on Wednesday that one of his employees had worked without pay on her personal time to find him a place to live, a service that Democrats said amounted to a violation of federal law.
First of 106 new Compressed Natural Gas buses in Surrey this week
TRANSLINK on Tuesday announced that the first of 106 new Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses have arrived and will begin serving customers on Surrey streets this week, with full roll out of the new clean energy buses by the end of the year.
Once all the new buses are in service, it will mean more than half the 209 buses in the Surrey fleet will be new, providing a better customer experience.
Republican senator says EPA chief must slow refinery waivers or resign
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Republican Senator Chuck Grassley on Tuesday said Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt must scale back the use of biofuels waivers for small refineries, or else he will join other lawmakers calling for Pruitt’s resignation.
By Jarret Renshaw & Chris Prentice.
RNG Stakeholders Talk Renewable Fuels With Lawmakers
By Betsy Lillian, NGT News.
Stakeholders from across the North American renewable natural gas (RNG) industry descended on Capitol Hill today for more than 65 meetings with federal lawmakers to communicate the importance of continuing to develop and grow the domestic supply of clean energy and renewable fuels in the U.S.
The 2018 RNG Summit, hosted by the Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas (RNG Coalition), marks the sixth consecutive year that RNG industry representatives have coalesced in Washington, D.C., for the annual meetings, the group says.
World Biogas Association touts benefits of AD in new report
The World Biogas Association (WBA) and C40 Cities have released a report, titled "Global Food Waste Management: An Implementation Guide For Cities," that aims to help policy makers in cities improve the management of food waste.
The report, which was presented to the mayor of Rotterdam on Wednesday, outlines for city leaders the sources and impact of food waste; how to prevent and collect food waste; an overview of treatment technologies; a detailed description of anaerobic digestion (AD) and its products; and policy recommendations, barriers and implementation of sustainable food waste management.
Policy recommendations include undertaking large-scale food waste awareness campaigns; requiring businesses to separately collect food waste' providing separate food waste collection containers to households; and requiring all food waste to be "used" or processed through animal feed, composting or AD.
By Kristin Musulin, Waste Dive.
SCS Engineers to Provide Landfill Gas Management Support Services for Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska
SCS will provide landfill gas management support services at the Anchorage regional landfill, as well as three closed municipal landfill sites.
By Waste 360 staff.
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