Legislation sets regulations for anaerobic digesters on livestock operations in Iowa • Iowa Capital Dispatch

Legislation sets regulations for anaerobic digesters on livestock operations in Iowa • Iowa Capital Dispatch

Iowa lawmakers advanced a bill to regulate anaerobic digesters on animal feeding operations. (Photo by Lance Cheung/USDA) A bill advanced from the Iowa House Thursday that would regulate anaerobic digesters, or systems that break down organic material in an oxygen-deprived system to produce usable biogas and fertilizer, at animal feeding operations.  House File 989 would task the Iowa Department of Natural Resources with regulating the construct…

Legislation sets regulations for anaerobic digesters on livestock operations in Iowa

A bill advanced from the Iowa House Thursday that would regulate anaerobic digesters, or systems that break down organic material in an oxygen-deprived system to produce usable biogas and fertilizer, at animal feeding operations. House File 989 would task the…