Hunts Point, in the Bronx, is a neighborhood with pollution problems in a borough with pollution problems.

Well, now that some of that InBev scare has passed, Anheuser-Busch has a little positive press. The American macrobrewer got a grant from the EPA to install a certain type of filtration device on trucks that will reduce their emissions by 70-80 percent, according to a press release.

How many trucks? Fifteen, all in the Hunts Point fleet. So. It’s a start, but A-B could probably be doing more than merely accepting the $150,000 — like matching it. That would be another start. Imagine: 30 whole trucks, emitting the greenhouse gases of, uh… let’s see, take 30 percent of 30 and… nine trucks!

Why, imagine if a company had the notion to do this to all of its trucks!

How does this fit in with GreenGrog? Well, draught beers have a lighter carbon footprint than beers in bottles or cans, so if you’re looking for, say, an Ommegang Witte, you can search BeerMenus.com and find at least four locations where it’s available on draft (and cheaper, actually, than several where it’s only in bottles).

[via Gothamist!]

What it amounts to is people just reporting the weather-induced hops and grain shortages that have been driving up the industry-side costs for over a year now (and which are finally likely to be passed on to consumers in greater amounts). You can check our video on the matter for some background here.

Happy reading, and as always, let us know what you think!

Beer isn’t included on the list, but it raises a similar point we’ve been talking about a lot lately, which is that organic products made by big companies (for example, Anheuiser-Busch’s — or, excuse us, Green Valley Brewing Co.’s — Stone Mill Organic Pale Ale organic brew) won’t often be labeled as being owned by the actual parent corporation, because the buyers in the niche market like buying from what they think is a smaller organic company. (more…)