Albert Straus, founder and CEO of Straus Family Creamery, Petaluma, Calif., collaborated with BMW Group, Germany, to make low carbon charging available for BMW’s electric vehicle (EV) customers in California.

Wensleydale Creamery, UK, partnered with Iona Capital, a UK-based environmental fund manager, to produce over 10,000 MWh of energy per year from a byproduct of cheesemaking.

Smithfield Foods, Inc., Smithfield, Va., announced plans to construct new biogas gathering systems in Missouri and Utah.

Land O'Lakes, Inc., Arden Hills, Minn., and California Bioenergy, LLC (CalBio), Visalia, Calif., launched what is said to be a first-of-its-kind collaboration to support the financing, installation and management of on-farm methane digesters to generate renewable compressed natural gas (R-CNG) fuel in California, thus creating a farmer-led model for "barn to biogas."

German plant manufacturer WELTEC BIOPOWER signed a contract for a biogas plant extension of Estancias del Lago’s (EDL) milk powder plant in Uruguay.

DuPont Industrial Biosciences, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Bock UK Ltd., UK, announced a strategic partnership where Bock will demonstrate DuPont’s biogas enzyme technology at commercial scale in the U.K. market.

The White House released a Biogas Opportunities Roadmap highlighting the economic and environmental benefits and potential for biogas systems on dairy farms in the United States.

New waste-to-energy technologies can transform this food waste into clean, green energy while also providing a bonus in reducing the amount of waste that goes into landfills.

Murphy-Brown of Missouri, LLC (MBM), Princeton, Mo., and St. Louis-based Roeslein Alternative Energy, LLC announced joint plans to develop a $100 million renewable biogas project in northern Missouri.