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Indiana Gears up to Turn Manure into Renewable Energy

There’s not much to see in this remote corner of southern Decatur County.  Dairy cows outnumber people.  Farmland sweeps wide in every direction.

 But this area, on the outskirts of Greensburg, could be the next center of Indiana’s growing biogas industry, turning manure into renewable natural gas.

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Cummins To Invest More Than $1 Billion In U.S. Plants, Including Busti Facility

The Jamestown Engine Plant isn’t the only plant receiving major investment from Cummins Inc.

Early this morning, Cummins announced in advance of a visit by President Joe Biden to its Fridley, Minn., plant that the company is investing more than $1 billion across its U.S. engine manufacturing network in Indiana, North Carolina and the Jamestown Engine Plant in Busti. The announcement includes Cummins’ plans to invest $452 million, as has already been reported by The Post-Journal, in its Jamestown Engine Plant to upgrade its 998,000 square-foot facility in Western New York to produce the industry’s first fuel-agnostic internal combustion engine platform that leverages a range of lower carbon fuel types. The X15N is part of the new fuel-agnostic 15-liter engine platform produced at JEP.

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NC State Researchers Take Aim at Textile Waste

From fast fashion to discarded linens, textile waste is piling up.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. sends more than 11 million tons of textile waste to landfills each year.

NC State researchers are hoping to change that, however, by making it easier to recycle fabrics.

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First Waga Energy Cryogenic Distillation Module Sold to Air Liquide Passes Acceptance Testing

Air Liquide certified its first Waga Energy cryogenic distillation module after acceptance testing was completed in January. Waga Energy supplied the module for Air Liquide’s RNG plant at the Mallard Ridge landfill in Delavan, Wisconsin.

Waga Energy’s patented cryogenic distillation module separates the methane from the air gases nitrogen and oxygen in landfill gas. At the Mallard Ridge RNG plant, the module is implemented with an Air Liquide membrane filtration system. The plant, now up and running, is already producing RNG—a renewable alternative to fossil-based natural gas—from the landfill gas produced on site and injecting it directly into the local gas grid.

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Indiana Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch Visits BioTown Biogas

Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch visited BioTown Biogas in Reynolds to learn about one of the world’s largest on-farm biodigesters for renewable energy production.

BioTown Biogas activated a new digester and processing facility. The company sources food waste, manure and other agricultural waste to produce renewable natural gas and electric power.

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Sonoco Partners with GreenGasUSA to Reduce Emissions and Provide Renewable Energy

Sonoco has upgraded its Hartsville wastewater treatment site to significantly reduce carbon emissions. The company began treating wastewater from its paper operations in the 1950’s and in 1987, an anaerobic lagoon was added to improve the system’s efficiency. Anaerobic wastewater treatment is a highly efficient treatment process that uses less energy and produces less sludge than conventional aerobic treatment. The organic matter in the wastewater is converted to carbon dioxide and methane. In addition to the anaerobic treatment, a cover on the lagoon had been capturing the gases and routing them to a flare for destruction.

In partnership with renewable natural gas developer GreenGasUSA, new biogas equipment now converts any gaseous methane to pipeline quality renewable natural gas for use in homes and businesses using the existing interstate pipeline system. It’s expected to reduce Sonoco’s greenhouse gas emissions by 8,000 metric tons per year and provide renewable energy to South Carolina.

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An Arizona Dairy Farm is Turning Cow Manure into Renewable Natural Gas

It all starts here - with 25,000 dairy cows at Butterfield Dairy Farm in Buckeye.

"Me and my three sons built this dairy, there was no contractor here, they did it all," said owner Thomas De Jong.

The De Jong family bought land in Buckeye in 2003. They finished their first dairy in 2008 and their second in 2018, but the owner says his family has been in the dairy business since 1620.

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County Looks at Gas Generation and Steps up Recycling Program

The New Hanover County landfill might be getting ready to step on the gas.
 
At their meeting Monday, the county commissioners are expected to consider entering into a contract with Archaea Energy to develop a landfill gas-to-renewable natural gas facility. The project has been in the works for several years, according to Joe Suleyman, the director of New Hanover’s Recycling and Solid Waste Department.

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EPA Approves California Phasing out Diesel Trucks, Replacing them with Electric Vehicles

The Environmental Protection Agency formally approved California rules on Friday to phase out diesel-burning trucks, a move experts say will kick off the transition to electric trucks in several other key states.

California needed a waiver from the federal agency to enforce its clean truck rules, which have already been approved by state regulators, because they are significantly more ambitious than EPA requirements.

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