Mar. 9—ELLISBURG — A Rochester area company plans to build a $20 million anaerobic digester facility that will turn manure from a local dairy farm into renewable natural gas. Steven Wilkinson, ...

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 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, ...

California is taking its fight against global warming to the farm. The nation's leading agricultural state is now targeting greenhouse gases produced by dairy cows and other livestock. Despite strong ...

At the end of February, the town board of Lind, Wisconsin voted against changing the zoning laws to allow a nearby 600-cow dairy to install an anaerobic digester. These digesters are becoming more ...

Reducing the amount of methane going into the atmosphere via anaerobic digesters and other means is an important short-term step for addressing climate change, a top scientist says. A lot of the ...

The Biden administration is cracking down on methane emissions from oil and gas operations. Slashing methane is urgent because it’s a “climate super pollutant” — 87 times more potent than carbon ...

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has conducted yet another in a series of academic analyses verifying the climate benefits of dairy digesters and the minimal impacts to neighboring ...

Dairy cows in northeast Iowa, shown in this 2015 file photo, often produce more manure than cattle raised for beef. A Winneshiek County dairy farm has abandoned its plans to increase the size of its ...

After refusing to disclose financial information over a nearly six-month state Freedom of Information Law exchange, the Cayuga County Soil and Water Conservation District released full contract ...