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 ...

A new petition seeks to end the Rural Energy for America Program’s support for on-farm digesters, which environmental advocates say do not provide sufficient benefits and take money away from other, ...

One of the next climate change solutions might be found at your local dairy farm. A team of MSU researchers are studying ways to generate renewable energy from dairy farm waste to charge electric ...

Michigan State University is poised to begin work on a new anaerobic digester, a system that will not only help re-use waste from MSU’s farms and dining halls, but also will create energy for some ...

Hundreds of thousands of tons of trash moves through the Ramsey/Washington Recycling and Energy Center each year. But the goal is to keep as much of it as possible away from the landfill. "We have ...

Increased demand for renewable resources — coupled with rising energy costs and a global movement to reduce greenhouse gases — is fueling growth in the anaerobic digestion market. An Independence ...

Paul Wolcott, owner of the Lent Hill Dairy Farm in Steuben County, is used to turning one thing into another. On his 4,000-cow farm in Cohocton, seeds become feedstock, which feeds cows, who then ...

Three different Michigan State University departments are working together in sustainable practices to convert campus waste into energy. In 2008, MSU established the Anaerobic Digestion Research and ...

A Danish company’s plans to turn cow manure into renewable energy in Minnesota and Wisconsin’s dairy country have tanked, at least for now. Nature Energy planned to build several large-scale anaerobic ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday it will be granting Ohio University $195,736 to help expand the use of anaerobic digestion. The funds will specifically go to the ...