Dominion, Smithfield Foods double their investment to turn pig manure into energy
Story Date: 12/3/2019

 

Source: Tamara Dietrich, DAILY PRESS, 11/4/19


You don’t have to live near a hog farm or processing plant to know how potent pig manure is. About 75 million swine are producing manure in this country. That means they’re also producing methane — a powerful greenhouse gas that’s shorter-lived in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, but packs about 25 times the punch at heating the planet. 

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