Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that is over 80 times stronger than carbon dioxide when trapping heat over a 20-year period. It accelerates global warming much faster than CO2. In California, ...

DAIRY FARMER JERRY DA SILVA had a manure problem. The 500 cows on his family's farm produced a lot of waste. He collected it in large lagoons and piped it out and used it as fertilizer on the land ...

PIXLEY, Calif. — 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 home ...

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, ...

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 ...

Maas Energy Works dairy digester at Legacy Ranch in Pixley, Calif. First of a two-part series on renewable natural gas in the agricultural sector. Renewable natural gas, or methane from non-fossil ...

A company’s plan to expand its biogas pipeline to 60 miles in Stanislaus and Merced counties passed a county environmental review and will connect 21 additional dairies. In late November, the ...

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 ...

Paul Wolcott, owner of the Lent Hill Dairy Farm in Steuben County, is used to turning one thing into another. On his 4,000-cow farm in Cohocton, seeds become feedstock, which feeds cows, who then ...

More than a decade ago, California helped spark a boom in biofuels — produced from plants or animal waste — with its first-of-its-kind Low Carbon Fuel Standard. The program forces carbon-intensive ...