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 ...

Jul. 1—ELLINGTON — At Oakridge Dairy, the cows are doing double duty — providing milk and sustainable energy. After breaking ground in November 2021, construction of the dairy's two million-gallon, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Anaerobic digester loans showed “significant delinquency rates,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture said, while environmental ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A growing number of California dairy farms are reducing their climate impact with methane digesters that capture the heat-trapping ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

OUTLOOK - After years of failing to generate a profit by selling electricity generated from cow manure, Dan DeRuyter of George DeRuyter & Sons dairy in Outlook is ready to give the natural gas market ...

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 ...