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Environmental Groups Petition to End Federal Grants for on-Farm Digesters
More than $257 million in USDA grants funded manure digesters at large farms, raising pollution and consolidation concerns from 34 groups including Food & Water Watch.
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ecotopical.comGroups petition USDA to block factory farm manure digesters from clean energy funds
More than 30 food, health and environmental organizations are urging the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to disqualify digesters that turn animal waste into gas from a federal renewable energy grant program, alleging that such funding causes pollution and benefits large factory farms. The petitioners say grants and loans under the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) should not be going to large-scale farms to build anaerobic digesters t…
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