California dairy farmers must buy multimillion $ cow-manure ‘digesters’ to comply with climate-change law

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Seriously? From Fellowship Of The Minds by Dr. Eowyn In September 2016, California governor Jerry Brown signed a bill to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 40% below 1990 levels by 2030. Adam Ashton reports for The Sacramento Bee that methane, a greenhouse gas like carbon dioxide, builds up in dairy manure pits, where farmers store waste for months until they can spread it on the crops they grow to feed their cows. Since agriculture accounts for more than half of California’s methane emissions, this makes it an obvious industry for the state’s Air Resources Board to regulate as it tries to meet the new law’s goal. continue:

California dairy farmers must buy multimillion $ cow-manure ‘digesters’ to comply with climate-change law

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