Verified Landfill Renewable Natural Gas from Toro Energy Is Now Available on Greentruth

Renewable natural gas (RNG), also called biomethane or bio methane gas, is pipeline-quality methane captured from organic waste decomposition — in this case, landfill gas — and upgraded for injection into natural gas infrastructure or use as a low-carbon transportation or thermal fuel. Because landfill methane is a potent greenhouse gas that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere, capturing and utilizing it as RNG fuel delivers a measurable, verifiable emissions benefit versus fossil natural gas.

Landfill RNG is produced through a multi-stage process: raw landfill gas is collected via a network of extraction wells, cleaned to remove hydrogen sulfide, siloxanes, and moisture, then compressed and upgraded to natural gas pipeline specifications. This RNG process transforms what would be an atmospheric liability into a commercially valuable, low-carbon energy product. The carbon intensity (CI) of landfill RNG is typically deeply negative — meaning its lifecycle emissions accounting, when properly verified, can deliver Scope 1 and Scope 3 emissions credits to the buyer.

Fuel Attribute Documentation Certificate (FADC) status is the designation Greentruth assigns to RNG certificates that satisfy the full evidentiary chain required for fuel use claims under leading GHG accounting and regulatory frameworks. For California compliance buyers, this is the certificate class that matters most.

Toro Energy's San Luis Obispo landfill RNG qualifies for FADC status on the Greentruth registry. This designation carries real compliance weight:

• Satisfies all 7 TCR eligibility criteria — The Climate Registry (TCR) requires seven specific conditions for a delivered-fuel usage claim to be credible; Greentruth's QET-RNG Fuel Attribute Documentation Certificates meet every one of them.
• Adheres to the best practice for delivered fuel usage — QET-RNG certificates follow the highest-tier methodology for attributing a fuel's environmental benefits to the end buyer, not just the producer.
• Full chain-of-custody documentation — From landfill gas capture through physical delivery confirmation, every link in the provenance chain is encoded and immutable on Greentruth's blockchain-secured registry.

For sustainability teams navigating GHG Protocol Scope 1 and Scope 3 reporting, this means Toro Energy's RNG certificates are not simply attestations — they are audit-ready, machine-readable instruments that reduce the documentation burden at the point of disclosure.

Scope 3 accounting with verified RNG under GHG Protocol

A Quantified Emissions Token (QET) is EarnDLT's proprietary on-chain environmental attribute instrument. Each QET encodes verified lifecycle carbon-intensity data and chain-of-custody documentation directly into a blockchain record on Hedera Hashgraph — making it machine-readable, immutable, and interoperable with enterprise sustainability reporting systems.

Legacy RNG instruments — traditional Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) or paper-based guarantees of origin — were designed for a regulatory environment that predates the real-time data demands of modern GHG disclosure. QET-RNG certificates are built for the current compliance environment:

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Toro Energy's RNG certificates listed on Greentruth are fully compliant across every major GHG accounting and regulatory framework relevant to California corporate buyers. This multi-framework alignment is not incidental — it is a structural feature of EarnDLT's QET technology and the Greentruth registry's verification methodology.

• CARB (California Air Resources Board) — Certificates align with California's regulatory guidelines for biomethane environmental attribute accounting, including the requirements of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) pathway documentation.
• GHG Protocol Corporate Standard — Buyers can apply these certificates toward their Scope 1 and Scope 3 inventory with confidence, following the GHG Protocol's fuel-use accounting methodology.
• SBTi Corporate Net-Zero Standard — RNG certificates structured as FADCs support Science Based Targets initiative commitments by enabling credible near-term abatement claims.
• CDP — Greentruth's machine-readable certificate data streamlines the annual CDP disclosure process, reducing manual data aggregation.
• TCR (The Climate Registry) — All 7 TCR eligibility criteria for delivered fuel usage are satisfied, as documented in EarnDLT's QET-RNG Compliance Passport.
• ISO 14064-3 — EarnDLT's verification methodology is aligned with the international standard for GHG assertion verification.

GHG Protocol Corporate Standard

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2024 and 2025 Toro Energy RNG volumes are available now — but supply is limited. These are vintage certificates representing actual production from a single, well-characterized California landfill RNG facility. Once sold, they are retired and cannot be reissued.

To acquire Toro Energy's verified renewable natural gas certificates:

• Visit Greentruth.com and log in to your existing account, or create a new account in minutes.
• Navigate to the Toro Energy listing in the RNG marketplace to review certificate details, vintage year, and carbon intensity documentation.
• Select your volume — both 2024 and 2025 certificates are available to address prior-year and current-year compliance obligations.
• Complete your purchase and receive blockchain-secured, audit-ready FADC certificates directly to your account for immediate use in GHG reporting.

Buyers with active California LCFS, CDP, or SBTi reporting obligations should act now. These are high-quality RNG certificates from a verified California landfill project, with Fuel Attribute Documentation Certificate status and full multi-framework compliance documentation in place.

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