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Brown University sold 90% of its investments in companies that extract fossil fuels and is liquidating the remainder, President Christina H. Paxson said in a letter to the campus community Wednesday.
The president's letter updates the school's efforts to confront climate change, which "may be the single most pressing problem that society faces today," Ms. Paxson wrote.
Scientific evidence is clear that "without a rapid transition away from fossil fuels on a global scale, it will become impossible to avert disastrous consequences for humans and the natural environment worldwide," she said.
By Pension & Investments
FortisBC Proposed Renewable Natural Gas Project for Williams Lake
A wood fibre processing plant that would produce renewable natural gas (RNG) is being proposed for Williams Lake.
Mayor Walt Cobb announced the project at the regular meeting Tuesday, March 10, saying if it is built it would be the first of its kind in North America.
“It will turn wood into natural gas to go right in the gas line,” Cobb said. “It doesn’t need any other processing. The residual is basically sand and there’s so little left through this process that has been demonstrated to us.”
By The Williams Lake Tribune
Kinetrex Energy receives "Alternative Fuel Leader" award
The Greater Indiana Clean Cities Coalition (Greater Indiana) presented Kinetrex Energy with its 2020 “Alternative Fuel Leader” award for the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in its fleet and its new Indy High BTU plant which produces renewable natural gas (RNG).
Each year, the Greater Indiana Clean Cities Coalition recognizes outstanding contributions to advancing the Coalition’s mission. Greater Indiana’s stakeholders have worked to fulfill the advancement of alternative, domestic fueled transportation including energy efficient technologies across all sectors in Indiana.
By Kinetrex Energy
Stratford Residents to Begin receiving Green Bins: Waste-to-RNG Program
Stratford politicians were the first to receive their green bins during a committee meeting Monday evening, just prior to the city beginning its roll-out of the first phase of Stratford’s curbside organics collection program on Tuesday.
Stratford residents living in single-family homes, duplexes, triplexes, and other buildings with less than five units can expect to receive a 45-litre green bin and a small “kitchen-catcher” container by the end of March, in anticipation of the city’s first day of curbside-organics collection on April 6.
By Beacon Herald
Ocado Extends its Investment in CNG Tractors
Online grocery retailer Ocado has ordered a further 30 IVECO Stralis NP tractors powered by compressed natural gas (CNG). The move follows an initial investment in 29 Stralis NP 4x2 tractors in mid-2018.
Ten of the latest blended biomethane-powered trucks have already gone into service, with the remainder due to follow this year.
The Stralis NP 400 4x2s, powered by a Cursor 9 Euro-6 gas engine, deliver the same output of 400hp and 1,700 Nm of torque as diesel equivalents, according to IVECO. Each vehicle emits 50% less NOx and 95% less particulate matter than current Euro-6 limits, as well as 95% less CO2, it says.
By Commercial Motor
Cummins Reveals Next Generation Engines
Engine manufacturer Cummins announced the next generation of its L9 and B6.7 engines during the Work Truck Show 2020. The next generation of these engines, available in 2021, was developed with emission regulation compliance in mind.
“Work on the 21 B6.7 and L9 engines began with the goal of meeting the EPA '21 GHG Phase II Emissions Requirements,” said Rob Neitzke, executive director - North America OEM business, Cummins.
The next generation of these engines are designed to deliver enhancements and features aimed to lower the total cost of operation. For example, both engines will have extended maintenance intervals, including extended oil drain intervals, extended fuel filtration intervals, and a new maintenance-free crankcase ventilation filter that requires no maintenance at all, according to Neitzke. Oil drain intervals on the B6.7 are up to 30,000 miles, or 1,000 operating hours; oil drain intervals for the L9 are 50,000 miles, or 1,500 operating hours. Fuel filter intervals on the L9 are up to three times longer than current models, and four times longer for the B6.7 compared to the current models.
By Fleet Owner
Gas Companies Want to Recycle Dairy Farm Waste into Renewable Gas
Companies in the U.S. natural gas industry have begun to scale up a program to sell methane that’s recycled from sources like hog-feeding farms and sewage plants as a replacement for natural gas drawn from wells.
It offers an opportunity to reduce a potent greenhouse gas while creating a source of revenue for the growing number of companies, cities and farmers becoming engaged in the budding process.
A “methane tracker” report released in January by the International Energy Agency calculated that the warming power of the invisible and hard-to-detect gas can be as high as 87 times more powerful than carbon dioxide during its first 20 years of life. The amount of methane circulating in the atmosphere is 2.5 times bigger than it was in the preindustrial age, the report said.
By John Fialka, Scientific American
RNG Movement in Utah
Inexhaustible sources of methane such as hog and cow manure and food waste from restaurants are powering a growing renewable natural gas industry, and Utah consumers now have an opportunity to boost that effort.
Dominion Energy customers can elect to buy blocks of renewable natural gas at $5 each, added as a surcharge to their monthly gas bills. Dominion uses funds from this GreenTherm program to purchase renewable natural gas from methane recapture plants, either in Utah or around the country.
By Daily Herald
Brightmark Partners with Three Michigan Dairy Farms to Produce RNG
Brightmark, a San Francisco-based waste and energy development company, today announced that it has partnered with three Western Michigan farms on the latest in a series of biogas projects the company has launched over the past two years. The Michigan farmers have each signed supply agreements with Brightmark indicating their intent to provide the company with dairy manure from their herds that will serve as feedstock for new anaerobic digesters to be built on Beaver Creek Farm. The digesters will capture, extract, and clean the methane in the manure, then convert it into renewable natural gas (RNG) and inject it into a nearby gas pipeline.
The farms participating in the Castor project are:
Beaver Creek Farm: Coopersville, Ottawa County
Den Dulk Farm: Ravenna, Muskegon County
River Ridge Farm: Coopersville, Ottawa County
By WRCBtv
Construction Complete At Indy High BTU, State's Largest RNG Project
Indiana’s largest renewable natural gas facility is complete and plans to produce renewable natural gas from trash later this month.
The fuel produced at Indy High BTU plant – a partnership between Kintrex Energy, EDL and South Side Landfill – is expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions comparable to 19,000 passenger cars each year on the road.
By Wyfi Indianapolis
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