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HOUSTON and MURRAY HILL, N.J., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE: WM), North America's largest waste services company, and Linde North America, part of The Linde Group, a leading global gases and engineering company, announced today that their joint venture company has begun producing clean, renewable vehicle fuel at its facility located at the Altamont Landfill near Livermore, California. The facility is the world's largest landfill gas (LFG) to liquefied...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Governor Jay Nixon today cut the ribbon on an innovative, new renewable energy project in Jefferson City, Missouri. This renewable energy project, developed through a partnership between Republic Services, Ameresco, Columbia Water & Light, and the State of Missouri, was recently featured at The White House in a meeting hosted by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Energy Secretary Steven Chu. The project was highlighted for its...
Major Clean Energy Job Creation Boom Seen for Economically Struggling Hoosier State INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Wind power, biomass, and other sources of renewable energy will bring significant job creation, economic investment and new tax revenues to Indiana's struggling rural communities, according to a new report released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). "Facing an unprecedented set of economic challenges, Indiana stands at a new crossroads and...
MCMINNVILLE, Ore., Sept. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Waste Management and McMinnville Water & Light will soon use everyday garbage to power thousands of Oregon homes, following the groundbreaking of Waste Management's new energy plant at the company's landfill west of McMinnville. The plant is a first for Yamhill County and another investment signaling Waste Management's commitment to renewable energy and innovative, sustainable technologies. The $10 million project will work by...
HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Edward G. Rendell today announced that large-scale projects that generate electricity from biological materials such as yard, food processing and animal wastes are eligible for up to $5 million in federal funding through Pennsylvania's Green Energy Works! program. "Investing in and developing alternative energy projects are essential to increase our energy independence," said Governor Rendell. "We are investing our federal...
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- AmerenUE announced today an agreement with Fred Weber, Inc. that includes plans to install combustion turbines capable of generating about 15 megawatts (MW) of electricity by burning methane gas at Fred Weber's Maryland Heights, Mo., solid waste landfill. Expected to be operational in 2011, the "Methane to Megawatts" project will be the largest landfill gas-electric plant in Missouri and among the largest landfill generation plants in the country in terms...
An impressive project was made public in Germany on Wednesday to set up minute gas-fired power plants in people's basements that will hopefully create as much electricity as two nuclear reactors in a single year, according to an AFP report.The Hamburg energy group Lichtblick and its partner Volkswagen want the plants to generate heating, hot water and electricity, with any additional power going back to the local grid.The companies said that the idea of "SchwarmStrom" (translated,...
NEW YORK, Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue. Thermal and Biological Waste-to-Energy Markets http://www.reportlinker.com/p0120336/Thermal-and-Biological-Waste-to-Energy-Markets.html This Report: Reviews the global waste to energy market and makes forecasts through 2013 Analyzes key factors that are driving growth in the market Details various thermal as well as non-thermal technologies employed for generating...
DALIAN, China, Sept. 3 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- China Industrial Waste Management, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CIWT) ("China Industrial Waste Management" or the "Company"), a PRC-based industrial waste processor and provider of environmental protection, pollution treatment and waste management design services, announced today that it attended the "Sino-German Workshop in Response to Climate Change Application of Sludge Treatment Technologies and Potential CDM Projects" on August 31st and...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Tengasco, Inc. (NYSE Amex: TGC) announced that on August 27, 2009, the Company entered into a five-year fixed price gas sales contract with Atmos Energy Marketing, LLC, ("AEM") in Houston, Texas, a nonregulated unit of Atmos Energy Corporation (NYSE: ATO). The agreement provides for the sale of up to 600 MMBtu per day of gas produced by facilities which extract the methane component of landfill gas installed by the Company's subsidiary,...
