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Episode: Dairy farms reduce climate impact with methane digesters, but communities worry about effects
Description: Home to about 1.7 million cows, California is the country's leading dairy producer and a large contributor of methane. Cow burps and manure emit the potent planet-warming gas.
A growing number of dairy farms are using methane digesters to convert manure and other organic waste into biogas to produce electricity or power vehicles.
The number is expected to increase since waste management practices such as digesters became eligible for funding from the Inflation Reduction Act—President Joe Biden’s law to combat climate change.
In the last decade, about 120 digesters have cropped up across California and roughly 100 more are in the pipe...