While New York and California race to achieve ambitious emissions cuts and lead the way on fighting climate change, the two states are on a collision course over an unusual endeavor: using cow poop as fuel to power trucks
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California’s policy creating incentives for lower-carbon fuels is being implemented in Washington and Oregon, expanding the market for gas from landfills and manure, and leading to a national boom in the number of dairy farms installing equipment to capture, clean and sell gas from manure. Some environmental advocates want this gas captured and turned into fuel for transportation or electricity, with incentives set up by the state.
So here’s the enticement from one coast to the other: California’s incentive — and the lack of policy in New York — has led to a largely unexamined shift that may have a perverse effect on greenhouse gas emissions. But while the goal is to cut emissions, the dairies already capture planet-warming gasses from manure and burn it to produce electricity. Environmental groups have raised concerns about the climate benefits of trucking the gas to a pipeline instead.
“For New York to separately claim an environmental benefit is simply double-counting,” said Josh Berman, a senior attorney with the Sierra Club. “To the degree that it’s displacing projects in California, that’s going to be problematic for me and lots of other people.”Dairy cows housed in a barn at the Welcome Stock Farms Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022, in Schuylerville, N.Y. | Hans Pennink/AP PhotoDEC, with staff citing the environmental benefits despite their out-of-state destination. Three farms in western New York are working with a Canadian company that secured $300,000 in grants from the New York Power Authority.
“You’ve got refineries and different entities out there that are required to pick up some of those credits,” CGE spokesperson Dennis Holbrook said. “There are also credits for the electric generation, but right now they’re not as lucrative.”
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