Framingham, Mass. — Ameresco Inc., Framingham, Mass., is joining with Santa Cruz County, Calif., in a landfill-gas-to-energy project. Under the terms of the agreement, the firm will build a plant at the county’s Buena Vista Landfill. The plant is...
Silver Spring, Md. — The Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) has joined with representatives of other renewable energy industries to lobby for an extension and increase of tax credits for all renewable energy sources, including...
Washington, D.C. — Mike Leavitt, administrator of the Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and representatives from 13 other countries signed an agreement yesterday to formally create the Methane to Markets Partnership. The...
Naperville, Ill. — An underground fire at a former landfill in suburban Chicago’s Greene Valley Forest Preserve continues to smolder while investigators have yet to discover the location of an oxygen leak that’s fueling the blaze, according to a...
Years of hard work and persistent lobbying have paid-off for the solid waste industry. In late October, President George W. Bush signed into law a corporate tax bill (H.R. 4520) that includes a landfill gas tax-credit measure under Section 45 of...
AFTER SEVEN YEARS OF LOBBYING, it seems like the landfill gas industry is finally getting fired-up. As part of the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, Congress has passed a tax credit for landfill gas and waste-to-energy projects. Facilities...
Washington, D.C. — The U.S. Senate on Wednesday passed a corporate tax bill that includes a landfill gas tax-credit measure. The bill now moves on to President George W. Bush, who is expected to sign the bill into law, according to The Solid Waste...