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Top Climate Scientists Accuse the Livestock Industry of Pushing Fuzzy Math to Downplay Its Climate Warming Emissions

An alternative emissions-calculating methodology underpins revised, less ambitious methane-reduction targets.

By Georgina Gustin

Dairy cows at a farm in northern Germany on July 2, 2025. Credit: Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images
Cows wait to be milked at a dairy farm in Escalon, Calif. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

California Water Board Will Soon Release a New Rule to Limit Water Pollution From Dairies in the State

By Blanca Begert

Cattle are seen at a dairy farm in Porterville, Calif. Credit: David Swanson/AFP via Getty Images

California Explores First-Time Regulation on Dairy Methane Emissions

By Blanca Begert

After the Winston Weaver fertilizer plant caught fire, the facility's owners shipped thousands of gallons of fire suppressant water to a dairy farm in Yadkin County. That material contained toxic PFAS. Credit: Winston-Salem Fire Department

EPA Weighs N.C. Environmental Harms From Sewage Sludge Used as Fertilizer

By Lisa Sorg

Annabel Williams, an apprentice at Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment, interacts with some of the cows during her chores round on Sept. 17, 2024.

Feeding Cows Seaweed Could Cut Methane Emissions and Diversify Maine’s Coastal Economy, but Can It Scale?

Story and photos by Matilda Hay

Workers perform milking operations at a dairy farm in San Joaquin Valley, Calif. Credit: Ed Young/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Rise in Avian Flu Cases Amplifies Concerns About Consolidation in Agriculture

By Georgina Gustin

Cows graze on pastureland in Caernarvon Township, Pa. Credit: Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images

Returning Grazing Land to Native Forests Would Yield Big Climate Benefits

By Georgina Gustin

Hudson Johnson passes hay to Kristen Kiker, as she prepares to tow it across floodwaters with a paddleboard to feed horses and goats on a nearby farm in Black Mountain, N.C., on Thursday in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Hurricane Helene Prompts Questions About Raising Animals in Increasingly Vulnerable Places

By Georgina Gustin

Dairy cows are lined up on a farm contracted by the Dairy Farmers of America in Greeley, Colorado. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Financing of Meat and Dairy Giants Grows Thanks to Big American Banks and Investors

By Georgina Gustin

Dairy cows gather at a farm in Visalia, Calif. on July 5, 2022. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Is California Overstating the Climate Benefit of Dairy Manure Methane Digesters?

By Phil McKenna

A San Joaquin Valley dairy farm is viewed from above on April 13, 2023, in Visalia, Calif. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

A Battle Is Underway Over California’s Lucrative Dairy Biogas Market

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

A view of cattle ruminating around a dairy farm in Escondido, Calif. Credit: Ariana Drehsler/AFP via Getty Images

Reducing Methane From Livestock Is Critical for Stabilizing the Climate, but Congress Continues to Block Farms From Reporting Emissions Anyway

By Georgina Gustin, Phil McKenna

Dairy cattle are herded into a milking parlor in Shavertown, Pennsylvania. Credit: Aimee Dilger/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Pennsylvania’s Dairy Farmers Clamor for Candidates Who Will Cut Environmental Regulations

By Grace van Deelen

Can California Reduce Dairy Methane Emissions Equitably?

By Liza Gross

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