But now, they’re about to embark on their most difficult challenge: convincing cows to stop farting.Livestock are responsible for about 15 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, and ...

California Cows Start Passing Gas to the Grid. Californians are mining cow manure as the newest form of alternative energy. By ABC News. March 5, 2008, 9:50 AM.

For farmers, this stinks: Belching and gaseous cows and hogs could start costing them money if the federal government decides to charge fees for air-polluting animals. IE 11 is not supported.

The U.S. dairy industry wants to engineer the "cow of the future" to pass less gas, a project aimed at cutting the industry's greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020.

Cattle pass a lot of gas, and the methane from their flatulence and especially, their belches, is an expanding burden on the planet. The greenhouse gas has a warming potential 25 times that of ...

Cows pass gas “so they don’t explode,” dairy industry reminds us California wants to curb methane emissions, but flatulent cows might not cooperate.

Genetics Can Determine How Much Methane Cows Release When Burping, Passing Gas, Researcher Says Methane is the gas passed or belched by the world's 1.4 billion cattle. In Scotland, cattle can be ...

Cow burps. Belching from the nation's 170 million cattle, sheep and pigs produces about one-quarter of the methane released in the U.S. each year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Sometimes it seems like California’s busybody bureaucrats have done everything they can. But now, they’re about to embark on their most difficult challenge: convincing cows to stop farting ...

Flatulence, cow flatulence to be exact. When cows pass gas, the methane from cows has the ability to fuel buses and according to Ingevity, is better for the environment. In honor of Earth Day coming ...

Genetics Can Determine How Much Methane Cows Release When Burping, Passing Gas, Researcher Says Methane is the gas passed or belched by the world's 1.4 billion cattle. In Scotland, cattle can be ...