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 ...

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 ...

MEAD, Neb. — Ranchers have long been fond of saying cattle manure smells like money. Now, folks in the business of making ethanol are smelling dollars too — in the methane gas emitted by manure at ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX/CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - Researchers have developed a new system that converts cow manure to propane. Researchers at the University of Vermont are pioneering a new technology to ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - University of Vermont researchers are developing technology to transform dairy farm waste into a cleaner-burning fuel, offering an alternative to current methane production ...

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 Crotherses started up a ...

COLUMBIA — An inmate-run gas plant at a South Carolina prison will turn cow manure into renewable energy that can power major companies in the state. Charleston-based company GreenGas USA is planning ...

The Loess Hills Regional Sanitary Landfill is one of a handful of landfills in Iowa that converts landfill gas into renewable natural gas. (Photo courtesy of Bret Stephens/Loess Hills Landfill) When ...

IOWA (Iowa Capital Dispatch) - When household waste decomposes at a landfill, it produces methane, a greenhouse gas that traps significantly more heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. The U.S.