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UPDATE 2-OPAL, NextEra Energy unit to build renewable gas facility in Minnesota Reuters 5 hrs ago Popular Searches April 28 (Reuters) - Privately held OPAL Fuels LLC and a unit of NextEra Energy are planning the first landfill renewable natural gas (RNG) production facility in Minnesota, the companies said Wednesday, as U.S. consumers and governments demand more clean energy. Landfill gas, like gas from animal waste, food waste and sewage treatment plants, is mostly methane, the second-bigges...

Privately held OPAL Fuels LLC and a unit of NextEra Energy (NEE.N)are planning the first landfill renewable natural gas (RNG) production facility in Minnesota, the companies said Wednesday, as U.S. consumers and governments demand more clean energy.

Christopher Leonards New Book Puts an Ever-Expanding Kochland on the Map Christopher Leonard’s new book, Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America, begins, appropriately enough, with an FBI agent, who is investigating criminal activity by the company, standing in a field with a pair of binoculars, trying to catch a glimpse of the daily operations of a company that prizes secrecy. Koch Industries was under investigation for theft of oil from the Osage and...

Zero-carbon electricity now provides most power in Minnesota April 17, 2021 — 8:00am Text size Copy shortlink: When Minnesota Power flipped the switch on the Nobles 2 wind farm in southwestern Minnesota last December, it became the first Minnesota utility to generate 50% of its electricity from renewable sources. The Duluth-based utility also is driving an accelerating trend. Clean energy grew in Minnesota last year despi...

Renewable natural gas plant planned for landfill in Inver Grove Heights The facility is the first of its kind in Minnesota.  April 13, 2021 — 11:52am Text size Copy shortlink: Landfill biogases will be converted into natural gas under a companys plans to build a new facility — the first of its kind in the state — at the Pine Bend landfill in Inver Grove Heights. The plant, approved by the city council Monday, will be built and ...

Urging Biden to Stop Line 3, Indigenous-Led Resistance Camps Ramp Up Efforts to Slow Construction Biden has pledged to make environmental justice, including Native rights, a cornerstone of his climate policy, but his response to Line 3 remains uncertain. February 16, 2021 Protesters of Enbridge Energys Line 3 replacement project walk through the projects construction zone near Palisade, Minnesota. The oil pipeline will stretch through 337 miles in northern Minnesota. Credit: Nedahness Greene Re...

It seems the discontent from protesters stems not so much with the pipeline itself but rather their disgust for crude oil, the same resource used to heat their homes during the winter and fuel their cars to get them where they need to go.

Copy shortlink: Flint Hills Resources is contemplating the construction of a large on-site solar farm to generate electricity for its sprawling Pine Bend oil refinery in Rosemount. Flint Hills said Tuesday it is reviewing bids from developers for a plant that would be built just west of the refinery on 200 to 300 acres of farmland owned by the company. Flint Hills, an arm of Wichita, Kan.-based Koch Industries, will decide on whether to proceed by midyear. "There is not ...

Rosemount refinery put out bids for its own large solar plant Mike Hughlett, Star Tribune © Star Tribune/Star Tribune/GLEN STUBBE/ glen.stubbe@startribune.com/Star Tribune/TNS Flint Hills Resources has put out bids for a solar plant to help fuel its Pine Bend refinery in Rosemount. Flint Hills Resources is contemplating the construction of a large on-site solar farm to generate electricity for its sprawling Pine Bend oil refinery in Rosemount. Flint Hills said Wednesday its r...