Nine electricity-producing methane digesters are under development throughout the state despite initial financing hurdles. Digesters, located on dairy farms, convert manure into electricity by ...

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 ...

WILLMAR -- A handshake and a signed memorandum of understanding could help secure federal funding for a methane digester to be built somewhere in Kandiyohi County and in China. Methane digesters use ...

A growing number of California dairy farms are reducing their climate impact with methane digesters that capture the heat-trapping gas so it can be used as biofuel. But farming communities worry about ...

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, ...

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 ...

Anaerobic digesters, like the one pictured above in 2021, capture methane and other gases that are expelled by microbes in manure. (The Gazette) Buy Photo The leaders of Winneshiek County agreed on ...

Connecticut is set to unveil its first methane digester in Ellington next week. Fifth-generation farmer Seth Bahler and his team at Oakridge Dairy Farm have spent the better part of the last year ...

BROOTEN, Minn. — More than 200 people attended the recent methane digester field day on Jerry and Linda Jennissen’s Brooten farm. The Jennissen’s methane digester pilot project uses the smallest ...

California’s dairy community and others are worried the progress the dairy industry is making to reduce methane emissions using dairy digesters would be jeopardized by a bill before the state Senate.

The state took a first small step toward requiring that dairies and livestock operations reduce their emissions of the ...