Dairy farmer Ron Koetsier’s 1,200 cows produce roughly 90 tons of manure daily, and for the last three decades, he has tried unsuccessfully to turn the stinky dung into energy to power his 450-acre ...

SUNNYSIDE, Wash. — A new $13.5 million manure digester system planned for two large dairies near Sunnyside could resolve federal allegations that they are polluting drinking water — and provide a ...

Let down by electric utilities, farmers bet on natural gas as a more promising way to make a return from cow manure. This story is the second in a three-part series. Read the first and third ...

Scientists in Spain have proposed to combine anaerobic digestion plants with photovoltaic-thermal panels and have found that this combination may achieve an LCOE of $0.045/kWh across several locations ...

Implementing novel management practices in dairy farming, one of the commonwealth's major agricultural industries, could help alleviate a large source of both nutrient pollution and greenhouse gas ...

At a once-vacant brownfield on the South Side of Chicago, a semitruck backed into an unassuming warehouse and unloaded a colorful batch of food scraps and spoiled products. The discards soon ended up ...

FAIRHAVEN — The wastewater treatment plant's new anaerobic digester has continued to trouble the Board of Public Works since it became operational in September. After months of mechanical issues, the ...

Microwave digestion is an established technique that has been used for many years. Recently laboratories are beginning to use microwave digestion for sample preparation. In this interview, Bob ...