Biogas made from dairy and pig manure has long been an energy source non grata for environmental groups across the country. The fuel is touted by agribusiness, utilities and renewable natural gas ...

Hundreds of millions of dollars intended to cut energy costs have been funneled to costly manure digesters, benefitting industrial-scale livestock operations. Hundreds of millions of dollars intended ...

PLYMOUTH, Ind. — Homestead Dairy Farm is family-owned and operated. Jill and Brian Houin recycle cow manure to help power their hometown with green energy. They’re able to do that with the help of an ...

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 ...

In April, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it would stop providing loan guarantees for methane biodigester ...

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 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 ...

MADISON - New research conducted by environmental groups argues that manure digesters, seen as a solution to pollution from large-scale livestock farms, do more harm than good because of other ways ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 9—ELLISBURG — A Rochester area company plans to build a $20 million anaerobic digester facility that will turn manure from a ...