Energy

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...

Zeeland Township, Mich. — A trio of companies, including Waste Management of Michigan, broke ground last week on a six-mile pipeline that will move methane gas from a landfill to a soybean processing plant, according to The Grand Rapids Press. The...

AFTER DECADES OF STRUGGLING with methane emissions, we have finally recognized the importance of this resource and made a bold commitment. But don’t extinguish those flares yet. It’s true that the United States has pledged $53 million over the...

Washington, D.C. — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Mike Leavitt announced today that the United States will join Australia, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the United Kingdom and Ukraine in efforts to develop and promote...

IN MOST JURISDICTIONS, the coup de grace for trash usually comes when it is flung into a landfill. Not so in Hennepin County, Minn., which has no landfills. Here, trash disposal has morphed into a resource recovery operation anchored by two...

Albany, N.Y. — As New York state considers the parameters of a renewable energy policy, a state official has recommended that "burning garbage should not be considered a resource on par with wind and waves," according to The Associated Press (AP)...