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Why Hexagon Agility is Bullish on RNG as a Truck Fuel
Renewable natural gas is, well, a natural when it comes to replacing diesel as a clean fuel for truck fleets. Hexagon Ability's senior vice president, global sales and marketing Americas, tells HDT Talks Trucking why.
Eric Bippus thinks that a new era of "common sense" in Washington could help fleets adopt one of the cleanest and most diesel-like fuels available for trucks today.
EPA Warns of PFAS Exposure From Biosolids in Long-Awaited Report
The U.S. EPA warns that two kinds of PFAS chemicals can harm human health when found in biosolids at concentrations as low as 1 part per billion after the material has been disposed of or used as fertilizer. The agency determined the chemicals could leach from the material, commonly known as sewage sludge, whether it’s land applied, disposed of in a landfill or incinerated.
The EPA released its draft risk assessment Tuesday. It’s the first comprehensive look performed by the agency at contamination from PFOA and PFOS, two forms of perfluoroalkyl substances, in biosolids.
CARB Gets Into the Ring To Defend Its EV Rules
California’s air regulators are taking the gloves off in their fight against the Trump administration and auto industry over the state’s electric future.
Trump’s agencies and Republican lawmakers have launched attacks against California policies on multiple fronts, including an effort to revoke its car and truck electrification mandates through congressional review. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin ratcheted up the pressure Wednesday, announcing that he’s seeking to overturn dozens of climate regulations — including federal tailpipe emission standards.
Montauk Reports Increased RNG Production for 2024
Montauk Renewables Inc. on March 13 announced the company produced 5.6 million MMBtu of renewable natural gas (RNG) last year, up 1.6% when compared to 2023. Electricity production was at 186,000 megawatt hours (MWh), down from 194,000 MWh in 2023.
Sean McClain, president and CEO of Montauk, discussed company operations and policy impacts during a fourth quarter earnings call.
Chevron Advances Plans To Develop US Data Centers With Power Generation
Chevron is advancing plans to tap into data center power demand, with the oil major recently entering the permitting and engineering phases for multiple U.S. sites to develop the centers and the electricity to supply them, a company executive told Reuters this week.
Energy use for U.S. data centers, which are essentially giant server warehouses, is expected to triple in the next three years as the race to expand artificial intelligence intensifies.
Energy Vision Report Finds RNG, Not Electric Vehicles, Best Option to Replace Oldest, Dirtiest Diesel Trucks
The sustainability NGO Energy Vision today released a report assessing ways to replace heavy-duty diesel trucks built before 2013. The report, "A Path to a Healthier America: Ditching Old Diesel Trucks," focuses on replacing 130,000 heavy-duty diesel vehicles built before 2013 in 31 highly populated U.S. counties, including the 10 largest metro areas.
These trucks have the worst air emissions of all vehicles on U.S. roads, yet 2.4 million of them still operate nationwide. Diesel trucks emit carcinogenic particulates, nitrogen oxides, and other harmful chemicals which contribute to smog and acid rain, as well as high GHGs.
Washington State Port Nabs $1.5 Million Grant for Fuel Project
The municipal Port of Walla Walla in southeast Washington secured a $1.5 million state grant for Amsterdam-based SkyNRG to annually produce 50 million gallons of sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel near a multimodal freight network.
SkyNRG selected the industrial park as the site for its manufacturing facility due to its proximity to Washington airports and the surrounding West Coast markets, where it sees potential for rising demand across the transportation industry for alternative fuels to help reduce carbon emissions. The facility will produce SAF and renewable diesel using feedstocks such as renewable natural gas.
New Illinois Facility Sets Benchmark in Landfill Gas to Renewable Natural Gas Conversion
A significant advancement in landfill gas to renewable natural gas conversion technology has emerged with the opening of a new renewable natural gas (RNG) facility at the Roxana Landfill in Edwardsville, Illinois. The facility, developed through a joint venture between Ameresco Inc. and Republic Services, represents one of North America’s largest landfill gas to renewable natural gas conversion projects, with an annual production capacity of 1.4 trillion British thermal units of renewable natural gas.
City of Pasco, Burnham RNG and Partners Celebrate Water Recovery and Renewable Energy Facility
The City of Pasco (WA), Burnham RNG, and project partners Biogas Engineering, Cascade Natural Gas, Gross-Wen Technologies, Sustainable Energy Ventures, Swinerton Energy, and Xylem are celebrating the groundbreaking expansion of the Process Water Reuse Facility (PWRF) and Pasco Resource Recovery Center (PRRC) —with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 11 a.m. on March 22, 2025.
This innovative facility transforms process water from seven local food processing plants into multiple beneficial resources. Through a unique combination of processes, the PRRC generates renewable natural gas (RNG), nutrient-rich soil amendments, algae for use in bioproducts, and returns clean water to be used for agricultural irrigation, all while reducing environmental impact.
$20 Million RNG Facility Proposed at Ellisburg Dairy Farm
A Rochester, NY area company plans to build a $20 million anaerobic digester facility that will turn manure from a local dairy farm into renewable natural gas.
Plans call for trucking the livestock manure from the farm a short distance away from the digester site, he said. The digester will then generate methane gas and then go through a cleaning process before renewable energy will be transported by compressed natural gas trailers to a pipeline in Ontario County.