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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

Employees walk past the JBS plant in Marshalltown, Iowa. A new report lists the Brazilian meat giant as a top five greenhouse gas emitter. Credit: KC McGinnis/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Climate-Warming Methane Emissions from the World’s Biggest Livestock Companies Are Bigger Than From Major Oil and Gas Companies

By Georgina Gustin

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

A tractor pulls a machine for composting cow manure at a dairy farm in Fort Morgan, Colo. Credit: Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via Getty Images

A Byproduct of Manure Runoff Is Polluting Drinking Water in Thousands of US Communities, According to a New Report

By Georgina Gustin

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

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

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

The Harris Cattle Ranch feedlot is the largest producer of beef in California. While the number of cattle drops around the country, the cattle in large dairies and feedlots continue to grow. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

As the Number of American Farms and Farmers Declines, Agriculture Secretary Urges Climate Action to Reverse the Trend

By Georgina Gustin

Sandy Van Echo gives her friend's Nubian goat a good-luck kiss before the Arizona State Fair show begins on Friday, Oct. 27, 2023. Credit: Emma Peterson

What’s Going On With the Goats of Arizona

By Emma Peterson

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

Steve Shehadey and Sarah Dean in the milking barn of Bar 20 Dairy Farm. Credit: Grace van Deelen

California’s ‘Most Sustainable’ Dairy is Doing What’s Best for Business

By Grace van Deelen

Dairy cows at Bar 20 line up in the feedlot. Credit: Grace van Deelen

Expansion of a Lucrative Dairy Digester Market is Sowing Environmental Worries in the U.S.

By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Grace van Deelen

Steve Shehadey, owner of Bar 20 Dairy Farm, walks through the feedlot on his farm. Credit: Grace van Deelen

Just Two Development Companies Drive One of California’s Most Controversial Climate Programs: Manure Digesters

By Grace van Deelen, Emma Foehringer Merchant

Dairy cows have just been milked in Bar 20's milking barn. Credit: Grace van Deelen

California Has Provided Incentives for Methane Capture at Dairies, but the Program May Have ‘Unintended Consequences’

By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Grace van Deelen

Cows are seen at a farm on Jan. 17, 2020 in Ancramdale, New York. Credit: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images

Manure-Eating Worms Could Be the Dairy Industry’s Climate Solution

By Grace van Deelen

Livestock outside of Bakersfield in Kern County, California. Credit: Citizen of the Planet/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Feeding Cows Seaweed Reduces Their Methane Emissions, but California Farms Are a Long Way From Scaling Up the Practice

By Grace van Deelen

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