The manure lagoon is a no-go for now. A crowd of Somers residents was pleased Tuesday night when zoning officials blocked Oakridge Dairy’s plan to truck tons of cow manure to a nearly 3-acre man ...

(Noah Berger/AP Photo) Most digesters are in dairies that capture methane from lagoons of cow manure and turn it into biofuel. Liquified cow manure commonly is stored in a covered digester where ...

FILE- A line of Holstein dairy cows feed through a fence at a dairy farm outside Jerome, Idaho, on March 11, 2009. A California man is going to prison for running a cow pat-to-green energy scheme ...

Agriculture Cow poop might make cleaner hydrogen gas a reality The new ‘transformative’ production method substitutes fossil fuels for biochar made from animal and agricultural waste. Andrew Paul ...

California does this through grants for construction of digesters — recovery systems that trap the methane from manure — and valuable climate credits from its Low Carbon Fuel Standard program.

A single cow can also produce up to 100 pounds of methane-infused manure each day. More than half of California’s methane emissions come from cattle, due in part to how farms treat cattle manure.

Ray Brewer, 66, duped investors out of nearly $9 million claiming he could turn cow manure into green energy. He was sentenced to over six years in federal prison for the Ponzi scheme.

A man from California who ran a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme where he claimed to turn cow manure into green energy has been sentenced to over six years in prison, the US attorney’s office ...