A new petition seeks to end the Rural Energy for America Program’s support for on-farm digesters, which environmental ...

Hundreds of millions of dollars intended to cut energy costs have been funneled to costly manure digesters, benefitting industrial-scale livestock operations.

Let down by electric utilities, farmers bet on natural gas as a more promising way to make a return from cow manure. This story is the second in a three-part series. Read the first and third ...

MADISON - New research conducted by environmental groups argues that manure digesters, seen as a solution to pollution from large-scale livestock farms, do more harm than good because of other ways ...

PLYMOUTH, Ind. — Homestead Dairy Farm is family-owned and operated. Jill and Brian Houin recycle cow manure to help power their hometown with green energy. They’re able to do that with the help of an ...

ST. PAUL -- The House and Senate have provided $660,000 to provide loans to finance manure digester systems. Manure digesters take farm animal waste, trap the methane gas from the manure and convert ...

If today’s California is what the rest of America will look like tomorrow, you might want to brace yourself for too little water, too much animal manure, and $4.65-per-gallon gasoline. And, weird, too ...