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, ...

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is conducting an environmental review of a biogas facility, commonly known as a manure digester, proposed by Danish energy company Nature Energy in Wilson ...

WESTGATE, Iowa -- Top; Deck Holsteins near Westgate is producing milk like other dairy farms, but it's also producing power from its 700 Holsteins. The dairy farm is owned and operated by Judy and ...

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has conducted yet another in a series of academic analyses verifying the climate benefits of dairy digesters and the minimal impacts to neighboring ...

A growing national market in the proceeds from manure digesters—a technology developed to rein in emissions and fight global warming—is sowing worry that the economic paybacks could undercut U.S.

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 ...

The California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Office of Environmental Farming and Innovation is giving interested parties until mid-September to submit proposals for manure management practices ...

CLINTON, Maine (WABI) - A first of its kind in Maine - a renewable natural gas dairy digester. It will be located in Clinton, the area known as Maine’s Dairy Capital. A groundbreaking ceremony ...

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 ...

Dairy cows in northeast Iowa, shown in this 2015 file photo, often produce more manure than cattle raised for beef. A Winneshiek County dairy farm has abandoned its plans to increase the size of its ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has fined a northwest Iowa dairy owner the maximum $10,000 penalty for releasing 376,000 gallons of manure into a creek from a new anaerobic digester that hadn ...