OUTLOOK - After years of failing to generate a profit by selling electricity generated from cow manure, Dan DeRuyter of George DeRuyter & Sons dairy in Outlook is ready to give the natural gas market ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — At a massive dairy farm in the San Joaquin Valley, nearly 14,000 Holstein cows crane their necks through feeding stalls and gnaw leisurely on alfalfa. Meanwhile, close to their ...

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 ...

Explore the challenges facing the manure biogas project, including loan delinquencies and environmental concerns.

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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 ...