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Setback for Gary facility promising to convert household garbage into jet fuel

Gary Advocates For Responsible Development are asking a judge to block an air permit necessary for the construction of a proposed trash-to-jet biofuel plant in Buffington Harbor. The grassroots environmental group filed a motion for summary judgment on Monday as part of its ongoing litigation seeking to stop the project. A motion for summary judgment asks the court to issue a judgment on one ...

The company looking to build a waste-to-jet-fuel plant in Gary has paused plans to sell up to $500 million of tax-exempt environmental improvement revenue bonds through the Indiana Finance Authority.

California-based Fulcrum Bioenergy’s plan to sell up to $500 million of tax-exempt environmental improvement revenue bonds through the Indiana Finance Authority for its planned Centerpoint Biorefinery in Gary is on hold after the company’s bonds for a similar plant in Nevada went into default. The news prompted criticism from local environmental activists, who have long questioned the efficacy ...

/PRNewswire/ -- Fulcrum BioEnergy, Inc., a clean energy company pioneering the creation of renewable, drop-in transportation fuels from landfill waste, today...