The leaders of Winneshiek County agreed on Monday to rezone a rural parcel of land for a facility that will capture methane from decaying manure. The county’s supervisors, in a 3-2 vote, defied ...

A Winneshiek County dairy farm has abandoned its plans to increase the size of its herd as it builds a new facility that will capture methane from the herd's manure. That facility — an anaerobic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anaerobic digester loans showed “significant delinquency rates,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture said, while environmental ...

Methane is more than 80 times as potent as carbon dioxide at warming the atmosphere over a 20-year timeframe. In California, much of the methane comes from dairy cows. The gas is not just from the ...

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 ...