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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that is over 80 times stronger than carbon dioxide when trapping heat over a 20-year period.

Dairy farmers have narrowly escaped a move to limit the crediting period for anaerobic digesters within California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard. Yet the California Air Resources Board has agreed on 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, ...

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 ...

Two Portland residents are suing NW Natural, Oregon’s largest natural gas company, alleging the utility is putting customer money toward methane digester projects at industrial dairy farms without ...

After years of relying on voluntary grant and incentive programs to bring down a potent climate pollutant from dairy and livestock operations, California is looking into developing a rule to require ...

Methane, a potent climate-warming gas, is being captured and cleaned instead of released into the atmosphere. A new study by researchers at the University of California, Riverside shows the ...

GALT, Calif. – 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.

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 ...

Novilla RNG constructs manure digesters that have the appearance of grain bins to capture methane. This one is south of Sioux Center in Northwest Iowa. (Courtesy of Novilla RNG) Buy Photo The Gazette ...

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 to counter the ...