The Center for Agriculture & Food Systems at Vermont Law and Graduate School has released a report that analyzes and evaluates the extensive adoption and support of manure anaerobic digesters with a specific focus on the resulting equity implications. Ruthie Lazenby, “Rethinking Manure Biogas: Policy Considerations to Promote Equity and Protect the Climate and Environment,” Center for Agriculture & Food Systems at Vermont Law and Graduate School (August 2022). “The report finds that relying on manure biogas systems to mitigate livestock GHG emissions ignores both the extensive emissions created by the livestock industry outside of manure storage, and the environmental justice impacts of locking in existing systems of industrial animal agriculture by investing in expensive, durable infrastructure that requires the ongoing production of manure to remain financially viable.”
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