Category: Oil & Gas

March 14, 2019

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. announced an increased demand for renewable natural gas (RNG) from the refuse sector, particularly in California, where refuse trucks are fueled by the very solid waste they haul. The city of Fresno signed a two-year agreement […]

March 12, 2019

Pennsylvania legislators have introduced a bill to shore up two money-losing nuclear power plants that would otherwise close by 2021, by folding them into the state’s 2004 alternative energy portfolio standard for wind, solar and a handful of other energy […]

February 20, 2019

Waste Management of Arizona (WM) has opened its new compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station located in Goodyear along Interstate-10. The new station now supplies fuel to an expanded fleet of cleaner-running WM trash collection trucks serving residents and businesses […]

January 4, 2019

Syndial, the environmental services company of Rome based multinational oil and gas firm, Eni, has taken first step in its journey toward building industrial-scale plants to produce bio-oil from municipal solid waste as operations begin at a pilot plant located […]

November 9, 2018

Approval of PG&E’s landmark energy storage solicitation is the most significant example to date of batteries taking the place of fossil fuel generation on the power grid. Energy storage has helped decrease the California’s reliance on gas for years, particularly […]

November 2, 2018

Vogel Disposal Service has become Pennsylvania’s first waste company to make renewable natural gas (RNG) from its methane and to build its own compressed natural gas (CNG) stations fueling that gas. The Mars, Pa.-based integrated trash company that began with […]

October 23, 2018

Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) announced it has achieved a new milestone with its natural gas capture system, conserving a total of more than 2.5 million cubic feet of natural gas—the equivalent to what more than 12,500 homes use each […]

October 12, 2018

In Texas, Waste Management has fully opened the new Reeves County Solids and Liquids Injection Facility, designed for the safe disposal of oilfield wastes. An in-direct subsidiary of Houston-based Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE: WM), Waste Management Energy Services of Texas, […]

October 9, 2018

Waste management company CR&R Environmental has launched the first commercial-scale California operation to produce renewable natural gas (RNG) for injection into that state’s pipeline. And there are other “firsts” associated with the $55 million project. Predominantly privately financed with some […]

October 5, 2018

This is not the first time Con Edison has addressed the tightening supply-demand balance in the area. Over the summer, New York regulators approved a $5 million gas demand response pilot aimed at cutting peak demand over the next three […]