RALEIGH, N.C. -- The world's largest pork company said it's going whole-hog on converting powerful pig poop gases into power. Smithfield Foods said it is expanding to farms across North Carolina, Utah ...

WEBER COUNTY, Utah — From trash to treasure: A pilot program in Weber County is trying to find ways to bring clean energy to its communities, and officials say they have been successful so far. "This ...

A new renewable energy facility at the Lee County Landfill in Dixon is now operational, capturing methane gas and converting ...

Generating power while purifying the environment of greenhouse gases should be achievable using bacteria. In a new publication, microbiologists from Radboud University have demonstrated that it is ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Public Health Image Library, NIAID, Image ID: 18139) Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Public Health Image Library, NIAID, Image ID: 18139) Generating power while purifying the ...

When discussing climate change, carbon dioxide sucks up a lot of the air, so to speak. Less attention is spent on methane, which accounts for 20 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions but is 80 times ...

<p><br><P> A natural byproduct of human waste will be converted into electricity to power St. Mary's County's main sewage treatment plant. Using 94 percent federal stimulus funds, the St. Mary's ...

Small bacteria found in fertilizer-polluted freshwater ditches, streams, and lakes are like little power generators, according to new research from Radboud University in the Netherlands. There, ...

WESTGATE -- Fluorescent lights glow in the milking parlor at Top-Deck Holsteins as cows defecate in a specially-made trough, protecting workers attaching milking machines below. In no other dairy in ...