Learn about the pause on USDA anaerobic digester loans as the agency addresses high delinquency rates and environmental concerns.

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 ...

A growing number of California dairy farms are reducing their climate impact with methane digesters that capture the heat-trapping gas so it can be used as biofuel. But farming communities worry about ...

Groups focusing on the environment and small farms are praising a decision by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to pause and ...

Equipped with both a biodigester to capture methane from hog waste and a system to spray what’s left of the feces and urine onto nearby farm fields, White Oaks Farm continues to pollute the ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 home to counter the ...

The Biden administration is cracking down on methane emissions from oil and gas operations. Slashing methane is urgent because it’s a “climate super pollutant” — 87 times more potent than carbon ...

After refusing to disclose financial information over a nearly six-month state Freedom of Information Law exchange, the Cayuga County Soil and Water Conservation District released full contract ...