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, ...

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 ...

Rather than wait on the shaky timeline of offshore wind production, the state should invest in developing these digesters to reach its climate goals. Anaerobic digesters could help state cut methane ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Dairies part of one of California’s Oldest Climate Programs, the Low Carbon Fuel Standard A new Food & Water Watch analysis has found that 15 California mega-dairies are emitting enough levels of ...

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 ...

KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MI — Each of the 5,819 dairy cows at VDS Farms in Kalamazoo County produces 60 pounds of manure a day. That adds up to 350,000 pounds of poop a day. And more than 60,000 tons of ...