Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The cow’s amazing ability to sustain itself by eating nothing but grass is one of the marvels of nature, but it comes at a cost.

A tax on bovine emissions could hurt American farmers and consumers, House Select Energy Independence and Global Warming Committee Ranking Member James Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.) warned Tuesday.

Climate change happens, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. What is not happening, however, is a definitive reason attributable to man. People, put down the pitchforks, at least the ...

A bill filed by several House Democrats in Olympia is raising a stink with House Republicans. House Bill 1630 (HB 1630) mandates that dairy farms and feedlots report their annual methane emissions — a ...

Before the milk gets to the creamery, the cows have to cut the cheese. A group of House Democrats in Washington have smelt this contribution to climate change, and have dealt a proposal to measure it.

(CNN) - New Zealand has issued a proposal to tax farmers for their livestock emissions. They said cow burps or farts aren’t just smelly. They contribute to climate change. They emit methane, a potent ...

The cow’s amazing ability to sustain itself by eating nothing but grass is one of the marvels of nature, but it comes at a cost. As grass ferments in the rumen — one of four compartments in the animal ...