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 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, ...

The California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Office of Environmental Farming and Innovation is giving interested parties until mid-September to submit proposals for manure management practices ...

PIXLEY, Calif. (AP) — The stench of cow feces, urine and ammonia forces residents to keep windows and doors closed in parts of California's farming country. Some people constantly run air purifiers at ...

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 ...

The leaders of Winneshiek County agreed on Monday to rezone a rural parcel of land for a facility that will capture methane from decaying manure. The county’s supervisors, in a 3-2 vote, defied ...

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 ...

A Danish company’s plans to turn cow manure into renewable energy in Minnesota and Wisconsin’s dairy country have tanked, at least for now. Nature Energy planned to build several large-scale anaerobic ...

HARTFORD, MI – Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s plan to generate all of Michigan’s energy from renewable sources by 2040 is meant to limit climate change gases. It also has consequences for improving or ...