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 ...

Reducing the amount of methane going into the atmosphere via anaerobic digesters and other means is an important short-term step for addressing climate change, a top scientist says. A lot of the ...

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

At the end of February, the town board of Lind, Wisconsin voted against changing the zoning laws to allow a nearby 600-cow dairy to install an anaerobic digester. These digesters are becoming more ...

"Reducing methane emissions remains one of the best things we can do to slow global warming while cleaning up our air, ...

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 ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. There are some 15,000 Iowa hog confinements that, through the anaerobic digestion of hog waste which ...