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Utah’s First Anaerobic Digester Facility Opens in North Salt Lake

February 11, 2019May 8, 2020 by Alyssa Danigelis

A new $43 million anaerobic digester facility opened to the public this month in North Salt Lake, Utah. Wasatch Resource Recovery can turn solid food waste and liquefied organic waste into pipeline grade natural gas.

Trump Appoints Ex-Oil Lobbyist to Interior Secretary, Environmentalists Express Concern

February 8, 2019February 18, 2020 by Emily Holbrook

President Trump has announced he is appointing David Bernhardt to be secretary of the Interior Department. He will replace Ryan Zinke, who resigned in January amid an ethics scandal. Bernhardt will oversee approximately 500 million acres, as well as any energy production on that land. The department itself oversees federal ... Read more »

Why US Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Energy Rose Sharply in 2018

January 11, 2019May 11, 2020 by Alyssa Danigelis

Corporate renewables procurement had a record year and coal-fired power plant retirements picked up in 2018, but a new report from the Rhodium Group found that energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in the US actually rose sharply.

Reduction in Power Plant Emissions Continues in New England

January 3, 2019December 10, 2019 by Emily Holbrook

New England experienced another year of decline in harmful emissions, according to the 2017 ISO New England Electric Generator Air Emissions Report. The reduction is due mostly to a decline in the area’s use of power plants that use fossil fuels. The below tables, from ISO Newswire, show the year-over-year ... Read more »

Shareholders Pressure ExxonMobil to Set GHG Reduction Targets

December 18, 2018December 19, 2018 by Emily Holbrook

ExxonMobil’s institutional investors are calling on the company to set greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets. The investors have said they will file a shareholder resolution on the matter, according to Reuters. The move was led by the New York State Common Retirement Fund (NYSCRF) and the Church Commissioners of England ... Read more »

ExxonMobil Packaging Plants Achieve Zero Waste to Landfill Validation

December 12, 2018February 24, 2021 by Jennifer Nastu

ExxonMobil’s global network of lubricants blending and packaging plants has achieved zero waste to landfill status, according to waste diversion certification company UL. The company is successfully diverting more than 90% of the waste produced in the plants which manufacture all of the company’s Mobil-branded products. The company has achieved ... Read more »

Report: US Coal Consumption Plummets to 39-Year Low

December 6, 2018February 24, 2021 by Emily Holbrook

New data from the US Energy Information Association (EIA) shows that total US coal consumption has fallen to the lowest level since 1979. US coal consumption peaked in 2007, but has been falling since, due mostly to the decline in coal use in the electric power sector. According to ... Read more »

Dominion Energy Teams with Smithfield Foods to Turn Hog Waste into Renewable Energy

November 27, 2018 by Emily Holbrook

Dominion Energy and Smithfield Foods, Inc. have announced they are forming a joint venture called Align Renewable Natural Gas (RNG)that will capture methane emissions from hog farms and convert them into clean renewable energy for residential home heating and power for local businesses. Their first projects will be in ... Read more »

CDP: Oil and Gas Industry Lagging on Low Carbon Investments

November 12, 2018November 12, 2018 by Alyssa Danigelis

This year the global oil and gas industry is only investing 1.3% of total capital expenditure in low carbon assets, a new CDP report found. European oil and gas majors were slightly ahead at 7%, but overall this represents a drop in the bucket compared to the industry’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Waste to Power Packaged Solution Meets Tough Emissions Requirements

October 1, 2018 by Jennifer Nastu

ElectraTherm, a provider of distributed, waste heat to power generation, has partnered with Sigma Thermal to offer a complete waste-to-power packaged solution, the companies announced. The system, called the Emission Reduction and Power System, is comprised of Sigma Thermal’s process heater and ElectraTherm’s compact and robust Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) ... Read more »

Four Years after Oil Price Correction, Are Energy Producing States Recovering?

September 27, 2018 by Guest Author

The proliferation of hydraulic fracking to extract oil and natural gas has been one of the most profound drivers of regional-level growth prospects in recent memory. With the oil price correction of 2014, state economies with large energy footprints were hit hard. How are energy producing states faring now?

Electricity Prices in Western US Reach Highest Levels Since 2008

September 26, 2018 by Emily Holbrook

Due to record high temperatures and fuel constraints, wholesale electricity prices in the western United States reached their highest levels since 2008 this summer. According to the US Energy Information Administration, in the area served by the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), peak-period electricity prices in July averaged $101 ... Read more »

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