A new study from the University of California, Riverside offers a nuanced assessment of dairy manure digesters, finding the systems significantly reduce methane emissions overall but can lose much of ...

Anaerobic digester loans showed “significant delinquency rates,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture said, while environmental groups see the technology driving an expansion of large-scale animal ...

Dairy farmers have narrowly escaped a move to limit the crediting period for anaerobic digesters within California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard. Yet the California Air Resources Board has agreed on a ...

A California state grant program designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions results in the direct release of approximately 225,000 to 300,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide into the air each year, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 9—ELLISBURG — A Rochester area company plans to build a $20 million anaerobic digester facility that will turn manure from a ...

Methane is more than 80 times as potent as carbon dioxide at warming the atmosphere over a 20-year timeframe. In California, much of the methane comes from dairy cows. The gas is not just from the ...

The farm that Alice and Caleb Crothers inherited in 2015 was, like many dairy farms nationwide, struggling — but now, cow manure is helping to keep it going. Last fall, the Crothers started up a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of California’s biggest sources of methane pollution — its massive dairy industry — operates almost entirely without ...

A new study shows that systems designed to capture methane from cow manure, called dairy digesters, are highly effective. But on the rare occasions they fail, the leaks are large enough to offset ...

A Winneshiek County dairy farm has abandoned its plans to increase the size of its herd as it builds a new facility that will capture methane from the herd's manure. That facility — an anaerobic ...

Two Portland residents are suing NW Natural, Oregon’s largest natural gas company, alleging the utility is putting customer money toward methane digester projects at industrial dairy farms without ...

CORVALLIS - It's not easy running a successful dairy business right in the middle of one of Montana's fastest-growing counties. After all, not everyone appreciates cows or their byproducts. Dan Huls ...