A Danish company’s plans to turn cow manure into renewable energy in Minnesota and Wisconsin’s dairy country have tanked, at least for now. Nature Energy planned to build several large-scale anaerobic ...

Polluting the land, air, and water, is a moral and ethical problem. Making people sick is a moral and ethical problem.

A special project at Food & Water Watch focuses on Iowans living near industry climate scam projects. Fossil fuel and corporate agribusinesses have poisoned our climate and communities across the ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. I was a member of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources committee that was writing draft regulations ...

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 ...

Manure digesters, touted as eco-friendly solutions for managing agricultural waste and reducing greenhouse gases, have limited capacity to reduce livestock-related greenhouse gas emissions, and entail ...

Across the U.S., renewable natural gas (RNG) projects are gaining momentum. Research carried out by the American Biogas ...

The California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Office of Environmental Farming and Innovation is giving interested parties until mid-September to submit proposals for manure management practices ...

The city and port of Sunnyside have agreed to spend $12 million developing infrastructure for a potential industrial park, including a renewable natural gas facility. Pacific Ag, an agricultural waste ...

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, ...