A new petition seeks to end the Rural Energy for America Program’s support for on-farm digesters, which environmental advocates say do not provide sufficient benefits and take money away from other, ...
Biogas made from dairy and pig manure has long been an energy source non grata for environmental groups across the country.
A giant, balloon-like tarp stretches over a lagoon of manure on a Central Valley dairy farm, concealing a quiet but remarkable transformation. Methane, a potent climate-warming gas, is being captured ...
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 ...
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 an extremely potent greenhouse gas, capable of trapping more than 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. Indeed, it is thought that between 20 and 30 percent of ...
A giant, balloon-like tarp stretches over a lagoon of manure on a Central Valley dairy farm, concealing a quiet but remarkable transformation. Methane, a potent climate-warming gas, is being captured ...
Deconstruction took place Sunday on the Pennsylvania Farm Show’s 34th butter sculpture, preparing it for a second role. The 1,000-pound work of art, which depicted a life-sized dairy cow, cityscape ...
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh has started construction on a multi-million digester at the state’s largest dairy farm. The digester at Rosendale Dairy will use livestock waste to produce methane ...
Dairy digester on a Central Valley farm helping to reduce methane emissions. Credit: Chelsea Preble/UC Berkeley Methane is more than 80 times as potent as carbon dioxide at warming the atmosphere over ...
A new study by researchers at the University of California, Riverside shows the effectiveness of dairy digesters, which are manure ponds tightly sealed to capture and re-use the methane they produce.