The company says it is exploring second-generation biofuel feed stocks and processes that have the potential to reduce greenhouse gases through their entire lifecycle. For example, animal fats such as beef tallow, hog lard, and chicken grease are currently available in the United States in excess of 1.5 billion gallons per year. Though some of the particulates are created naturally by forest fires, volcanic activity, and methane release, the burning of hydrocarbons in modern engines has...

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Organizers say the event is aimed at highlighting efforts by the poultry industry to curb nutrient runoff, alternate uses for poultry litter, and legal, legislative, and regulatory methods for reducing the amount of nutrients escaping from poultry litter into bay tributaries. The Waterkeeper Alliance, the sponsor of the event, points to agricultural runoff, most of which comes from poultry litter from Eastern Shore operations, as the primary source of pollution in the bay. Organizers say...

of Kansas City, MO recently has been hired by the Friends of Arrow Rock, the Town Board of Trustees, together with the Missouri Parks Association, to assist them in protecting their community from the environmental effects of a concentration animal feeding operation (CAFO) of Kansas City, MO recently has been hired by the Friends of Arrow Rock, the Town Board of Trustees, together with the Missouri Parks Association, to assist them in protecting their community from the environmental...

The grants from Smithfield Foods were negotiated in 2000 in a 25-year commitment of $50 million to help clean up hog farm waste lagoons. woman died after a boulder struck her as she bicycled with a group of friends in a Virginia state park. A former Marine and airline pilot was sentenced to nine years in federal prison Monday for traveling to Charlotte to engage in sexual conduct with a 10-year-old girl. Cooper, who lived in the Granite Falls area, had been sitting in the back middle seat...