The environment

Piedmont Natural Gas announces participation in EPA’s Natural Gas STAR Methane Challenge Programme.

Legislation signed by Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan will seek to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030 relative to emissions generated in 2006.

Ariel Compressors are to be utilised in US$100 million UPS CNG fuelling station project.

Australia’s Southern Oil Refining will develop a new AUS$16 million biofuels pilot plant in Gladstone, Queensland.

A new waste to energy Tennessee plant will feature power generation technology from Clean Energy Technologies.

Air Products has been awarded a long term contract to supply nitrogen JSCK in South Korea.

Exiting the Energy-from-Waste business will allow the company to direct its resources to its core business of Industrial Gases.

Covanta Environmental Solutions has announced the acquisition of a material processing facility in Augusta, Georgia.

Blue Sphere has announced its acquisition of a waste to energy biogas facility from Agrilandia Societa Agricola.

Gijs van Heeringen, Bob van de Gender and Jan Klok, Paqell BV, continue their discussion of bio-desulfurisation in the oil and gas industry.

Altex & Unitel have partnered up to develop a new technology for making synthetic gasoline from biomass.

According to a new report from BCC Research, global environmental concerns are promoting the growth of ‘green’ chemistry markets.

According to the IER, new environmental regulations put in place by the Obama Administration may cost US citizens more and have little effect.

Cryo Pur’s breakthrough process uses biogas to produce bio-LNG and bio-CO2, and lower biomethane tariffs.

Gijs van Heeringen, Bob van de Gender and Jan Klok, Paqell BV, the Netherlands, examine the next generation of bio-desulfurisation that reduces costs and plot space.