US agencies aim to clean up cow manure climate crisis

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Extra funding aims to accelerate the rollout of anaerobic digestion and methane capture technologies capable of producing 1.5GW of renewable energy each year

The US government is to provide additional funding to an innovative project designed to capture methane from the country's cattle farming operations. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has signed...

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