Today, the national advocacy group Food & Water Watch released a new analysis on the true cost of the three carbon pipelines proposed for the Midwest, finding that federal taxpayers could waste in excess of $20 billion dollars on these projects over the next 12 years. A single federal tax credit called Section 45Q could […]
Sacramento, CA — Executive Officer of the California Air Resources Board Richard Corey unilaterally rejected a petition request from a coalition of environmental justice, animal protection, and community groups to immediately initiate a rulemaking to eliminate credits for factory farm gas from one of California’s premier climate programs, the Low Carbon Fuel Standard. “Governor Newsom […]
Sacramento, CA – Food & Water Watch has submitted a complaint to California’s Air Resources Board credits Oregon’s Threemile Canyon Farms’ factory farm “biogas” operations generated while its gas production facilities were violating Oregon air quality law. According to Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality, Threemile Canyon violated its air quality permit for several periods between […]
While industry touts RNG as a way to eventually supplant fossil fuel gas, the numbers tell a different story: This is an energy source that, at full potential, with 2019 data, accounts for just one percent of total natural gas use. Biogas also drives polluting factory farm expansion, driving increased industry pollution and hampering efforts […]
Carbon capture and storage is a false climate solution that threatens to entrench both the fossil fuel and industrial agriculture industries and steal public money away from real climate solutions like wind and solar. “Carbon capture and storage has no place in a clean energy future — and no place in our backyards,” said Emma […]