Family farms and environmental advocates worry that Riverview LLP’s enormous dairy operations will strain water resources, pollute local air and water, and drive out smaller farms, hurting rural communities.
Read MoreOver 30 environmental organizations want USDA to stop subsidizing manure-to-biogas machinery that they argue entrenches large, polluting livestock operations, promotes farm consolidation, and wastes taxpayer dollars.
Read MoreThe California Air Resources Board is weighing a change to its low carbon fuel standard, which critics say overvalues gas from livestock manure lagoons.
Read MoreGovernment subsidies to build methane biodigesters encourage a dirty industry to expand.
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