From the EPA Environmental Programs and Management Account, which will go to Tucker Engineering working with Scotland County, North Carolina.  The project will consume 85% of Municipal Solid Waste from Scotland County, which is currently being shipped approximately 70 miles to a landfill in another North Carolina county.  The remaining 15% will continue to be shipped.  In addition, the project will: create jobs within Scotland County, reduce greenhouse gases being emitted to the atmosphere by eliminating organic waste buried in landfills and reduce emissions from vehicles used to transport and bury the garbage, save the county approximately $1.7 million per year  in garbage shipping cost , including the associated fuel and trucks required, reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil by producing clean energy in the form of natural gas, with no hazardous by-products or emissions, and produce energy from a renewable source, helping Progress Energy meet its requirement of furnishing 3% of its total electricity from renewable sources by 2012.