8.2.6 Controlling Methane from Manure

LPDD Recommendation: “Congress could authorize environmental agencies to regulate methane emissions from manure management.”

LPDD Recommendation: “Congress could retain and, if possible, increase funding for the Rural Energy for America Program.”

LPDD Recommendation: “Each state could enact legislation requiring utilities to enter into long-term contracts with agricultural producers for the purchase of biogas and/or biogas-generated electricity, and provide funding to offset the cost of intercon­necting with utility infrastructure.”

LPDD Recommendation: “States could establish their own funding programs for anaerobic digester projects.”

LPDD Recommendation: “State agricultural agencies could provide funding for, and otherwise support, research into new methane emis­sions reduction techniques from enteric fermentation.”

LPDD Recommendation: “State legislatures could authorize environmental agencies to regulate methane emissions from manure manage­ment.”

California SB 1122

Requires the state’s investor-owned utilities to procure at least 90 MW of electricity generated at agricultural biogas facilities developed on or after June 2013.

EPA’s AgStar Program

A voluntary program coordinated by EPA, in cooperation with USDA, that supports farmers and industry in the development and adoption of anaerobic digester systems.