Tens of millions of tons (U.S. short tons) of organic waste are produced and sent to landfills every year in the United States. Diverting organic waste from landfills provides an opportunity to capture, covert and use gas generated by organic waste as a significant energy resource. The use of renewable energy to manage organic wastes through technologies such as anaerobic digestors is an exciting new frontier that can provide long-term benefits such as rural economic growth, land conservation, energy independence and sustainable food and energy production.
Vanguard Renewables joins Braun Intertec for this webinar to discuss how codigestion provides an alternative management for manure from farms and to reduce landfilling for food waste. Vanguard Renewables is a national leader in the development of organics-to-renewable energy projects and has received several awards for their pioneering work towards sustainability. Our speakers will share firsthand experience of how these technologies have helped clients in the farming and food manufacturing industries solve waste management challenges and implement practices towards climate change mitigation and decarbonization. Our environmental compliance and permitting experts will also share insights and strategies into permitting challenges surrounding this new technology.
Learn more about:
What is renewable gas and how can it assist with food waste management
The technology behind this sustainable way to produce renewable natural gas from manure and food waste;
Regulatory challenges associated with sustainable new technology that doesn’t quite fit within current regulatory structures; and
First hand experience from a pioneering company in the renewable energy space.
Jennifer Adams is the Director for compliance and permitting for Braun Intertec’s South Central region. She has over 18 years’ experience in both environmental consulting and private industry environmental compliance support. Her environmental compliance experience includes air permitting and evaluation, air emissions inventories, greenhouse gas reports, stormwater and wastewater general permitting, wastewater and stormwater compliance, and regulatory enforcement response. Additionally, she is the chair of Braun Intertec’s ESG/EJ task force and is excited to work with a team with such diverse experience to navigate the ESG/EJ space both internally and externally.
Kelsey Suddard is a Senior Engineer with Braun Intertec assisting clients from a variety of industry sectors with environmental compliance and permitting needs with a focus on air permitting and compliance secvices and is part of Braun Intertec’s ESG/EJ task force. Prior to joining Braun Intertec she spent over twelve years as a air permit engineer and supervisor for the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency where she worked on many complex air permits, environmental review projects, and helped create the MPCA’s environmental justice (EJ) framework for incorporating EJ considerations into regulatory services. Kelsey holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis and is a registered professional engineer in Minnesota.
Senior Director of Development at Vanguard Renewables
Sol Ucciani is the Senior Director of Development at Vanguard Renewables. With a background in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Sol has been working in the Biogas industry for seven years and works with her team at Vanguard to trailblaze a path to decarbonization for their partner farms in a way that is having a measurable impact in combating climate change.
Jennifer Wolff is a Senior Scientist and a Business Unit Leader in Braun Intertec’s Compliance and Permitting department. She has over 30 years’ experience in environmental consulting. Her experience includes investigation and remediation, solid waste permitting, hazardous waste permitting, spill prevention and control, and environmental training. She is a Professional Geologist in Minnesota as well as a Certified Hazardous Materials Manager.
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