At Pure Green BioAg, we are revolutionizing the way we organize waste streams. By using Waste to Energy Technology, Pure Green BioAg is driving a local renewable energy ecosystem by organizing feedstock from waste streams such as agricultural waste and commercial/industrial waste to produce clean hydrogen and SAF fuels.
Pure Green BioAg’s work consists of developing clean hydrogen hubs and supporting renewable energy production at competitive prices. We are establishing hydrogen value chains and scaled green hydrogen production to help Pennsylvania meet their Climate Action Goals, which are set to decrease GHG emissions to 26% by 2025 and 80% by 2050. This will ensure a transition to a clean energy future by managing waste streams across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ensuring a zero emissions economy.
Pure Green BioAg strives to advance environmental justice by creating jobs and new opportunities in renewable clean hydrogen. The expansion of a clean hydrogen economy will help lift low-income communities and bolster the Atlantic coast sustainable energy supply chain for clean hydrogen. Pure Green BioAg’s work is focused on a hydrogen and synthetic fuels network in Pennsylvania. This will also create clean hydrogen opportunities in hard to decarbonize sectors such as aviation, shipping, steel and semiconductor production while supporting high-quality jobs in urban and rural sectors.
● Clean Energy Development & Production
● Re-Organizing Waste to Energy Streams
● Sustainable Community Investment
● Clean Energy Job Creation & Workforce Development
● Advanced Climate Smart Technology
● Carbon Sequestration Strategy
● Mine Lands to Productive Energy Farmlands
● Environmental Bioremediation
Hydrogen is the most abundant and lightest element in the universe. Uniquely, hydrogen also has the highest energy content of all common fuels by weight. Hydrogen is quite versatile and can be transformed into electricity, used as a fuel for transportation along with other various industrial sectors.
Today, 95% of hydrogen is produced from fossil fuels, particularly produced from steam methane reformation (SMR) which ultimately breaks apart natural gas to release hydrogen, resulting in high carbon emissions. When clean hydrogen is produced using sustainable energy like wind and solar, this will create a cleaner, greener hydrogen ecosystem while responsibly reducing greenhouse gases and achieving a low carbon economy.
By using advanced climate smart technology, Pure Green BioAg is driving a local energy ecosystem by organizing feedstock from waste streams, such as commercial/industrial waste and agricultural waste converting these streams into clean hydrogen.
The United States Department Energy and the Biden Administration have set a 2030 goal to increase U.S. production of clean hydrogen by 10 million metric tons. Pure Green BioAg and our partners are working within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to meet this United States Hydrogen production goal.
In the development and production of clean hydrogen, Pure Green BioAg is committed to providing hydrogen at competitive market prices decarbonizing value chains in shipping, petroleum refining, steel, and semiconductor production. Pennsylvania is abundant with commercial and industrial hydrogen consumers that are already using hydrogen today. Our corporate mission is to offer robust solutions as options for our clean hydrogen renewable customers and furthering Pennsylvania’s Decarbonization targets for 2030 and 2050.
The Bi-Partisan Infrastructure Law’s $8 billion dollar program will generate economic growth with the development of regional clean hydrogen hubs to be selected by U.S. DOE. These hydrogen hubs will create networks of hydrogen producers, consumers, and local infrastructure to facilitate the use of hydrogen as a clean energy alternative.
President Biden on his first day in office, signed an Executive Order creating the Justice40 Initiative enacting a whole of government approach aimed at addressing environmental and economic disparities by directing 40% of certain federal investments to benefit disadvantaged communities. The goal of Justice 40 is to advance environmental justice and ensure that vulnerable populations receive equitable access to the benefits of federal programs related to clean energy, climate, and infrastructure. This investment will help confront decades of underinvestment in disadvantaged communities and ultimately advance critical resources to communities that have been overburdened by legacy pollution and environmental hazards.
There are 1,965 Environmental Justice Communities in the state of Pennsylvania and 2.3 million people living among these EJ communities according to the PA DEP. The Environmental Justice PennEnviroScreen Mapping Tool (PennEnviroScreen (pa.gov) allows the PA DEP to more accurately identify communities facing environmental justice issues using more than 30 environmental, health, and socioeconomic indicators and displays all 1,965 EJ communities in PA on the map. The PennEnviroScreen also provides a framework which calculates an annually updated snapshot of undue environmental burden on vulnerable communities.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines Environmental justice as “the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations and policies.”
Article I, Section 27 of the Pennsylvania Constitution says: “The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania’s public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.”
Pure Green BioAg’s corporate office is geographically located in West Hazleton, PA within an Environmental Justice Zone due to legacy coal mine pollution. We are currently developing micro hub projects to produce clean H2 and SAF within EJ Communities. Pure Green BioAg, is in the CANBE Innovation Center which is a Penn State University Lion Launchpad Signature Partner within the Invent Penn State Initiative which is a program to spur economic development, innovation, workforce development, and student career success.
As we transition to a more renewable, clean energy future, the fossil fuel industry has left several negative environmental impacts in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is scarred from coal mining with vast abandoned mine fields and over 7,000 miles of streams polluted form acid mine drainage. When burned, coal also creates the most carbon emissions of all fossil fuels, which is ultimately why the coal industry has steadily decreased over the last two decades.
By re-organizing waste streams into tomorrow’s energy streams, Pure Green BioAg is harnessing power from renewable energy, clean hydrogen, which is the cleanest and most sustainable way to generate electricity as its only emission is steam. Clean hydrogen can be converted into electricity through re-electrification in gas turbines, engines and fuel cells. Waste streams can also be used to produce various types of synthetic fuels including sustainable aviation fuel and sustainable diesel which help support the decarbonization of the aviation, shipping, and semiconductor industries” keeping air, land and waterways cleaner.
Pure Green BioAg’s office in West Hazleton, Pennsylvania is only a few miles from the largest single point source of Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) pollution to the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, the Jeddo Mine Tunnel. The Jeddo Tunnel was constructed in 1891 by mine owners to drain 33 square miles of underground water to make anthracite mining cheaper by permanently polluting the Nescopeck Creek and the Susquehanna River. Currently, Pure Green BioAg is among advocates and community leaders to support a clean-up plan for the Jeddo Mine Tunnel. We are helping to remediate the damage of this manmade environmental pollution impacting the Susquehanna River and Chesapeake Bay watersheds. This environmental cleanup creates green jobs that reverse the damage of AMD left behind by historic coal mining and extraction industries across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
On March 9th 2023, Pure Green BioAg officially cut the ribbon at our West Hazleton, Pennsylvania office within the CAN BE Innovation Center. The CAN BE Innovation Center is a catalyst bringing together new business interests, economic development leaders, and business resources creating new job growth for the Hazleton area and Eastern Pennsylvania. Other CAN BE Innovation Center strategic partners are Greater Hazleton CAN DO, Wilkes University, Lackawanna College, Luzerne County Community College, Penn State Hazleton, Ben Franklin Technology Partners, Northeast PA Manufacturers and other associations. We are excited to bring in renewable energy development and a decarbonization strategy into the CAN BE Innovation Center.
Nate Eachus, Founding Partner, of Pure Green BioAg cuts the ribbon at our office with State Representative Dane Watro Jr., Joe Lettiere, President/CEO Greater Hazleton CAN DO, and Mary Malone, President/CEO, Greater Hazleton Chamber of Commerce also joined by other CAN BE, Board of Directors.
Pennsylvania has over 200,000 acres of abandoned mine lands throughout the Commonwealth. Industrial Hemp plays a key role in phytoremediation of mine impacted, polluted soils according to a Penn State University study in 2019. This agricultural crop, Hemp, has the ability to sequester carbon from the atmosphere at a higher efficiency than any other natural organism and can be used with normal crop rotation with great benefit.
President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) provides a total of $11.3B to be invested over 15 years in reclamation of abandoned mine lands and acid mine drainage to eliminate dangerous environmental hazards and pollution caused by coal mining. The BIL’s purpose is to create jobs through mine reclamation and environmental justice in mine communities throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.