After 25 years of persistent work, Marin County rancher Albert Straus has figured out a way to run his dairy farm, organic creamery and electric car from the manure generated by his herd of 270 cows.

GRANVILLE — Rockwood Farm has 600 cows and one 800,000-gallon stomach. The “stomach,” an 18-foot-deep tank of cow manure and food waste slurry, is really an anaerobic digester. Inside, natural ...

In Martinsburg, Blair County, construction of a regional facility that would take manure from area farms and convert it into electricity and other sellable products, while simultaneously cleaning the ...

An Idaho dairy farm is illustrating how environmental innovation can simultaneously help solve problems as global as climate change—and as local as livestock manure. A Cargill-built-and-operated ...

A Wayne County farm’s failure to properly operate a system meant to capture methane for power generation likely contributed to the system failing and thick gray foam spilling into nearby Nahunta Swamp ...

Government safety inspectors will not be looking into the death last week of an experienced Quad Cities scuba diver who failed to surface from a dive to repair a broken cable at the bottom of a ...

COOPERSVILLE, MI – A large dairy farm is going to start producing electricity rather than smells from the manure produced by its 3,000-plus dairy cows, according to Sustainable Partners LLC (Spart), a ...

Dairyland Power Cooperative is purchasing the renewable energy from a new 45 kilowatt anaerobic digester located at a small dairy farm owned by Wayne Peters and his sons, Rory and Roger. The farm is ...

OSHKOSH, Wis.—The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh has started construction on a $7 million digester and public education center at the state’s largest dairy farm. The digester at Rosendale Dairy will ...

Government safety inspectors will not be looking into the death last week of an experienced Quad-Cities scuba diver who failed to surface from a dive to repair a broken cable at the bottom of a ...

TOWN OF LIND, Wis. (WLUK) -- What should we do with our food waste? That debate has recently become a contentious one in Waupaca County. A proposed co-digester has one farm hopeful for a sustainable ...

FREMONT, MI — It was April 27, 2020 and Kathy Morrison found herself suddenly fielding calls and messages about a liquid waste product called “digestate” that was escaping a nearby farm and flooding a ...