{"id":3694,"date":"2021-03-02T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farmforward1.wpengine.com\/?p=3694"},"modified":"2022-11-22T02:48:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T02:48:31","slug":"methane-digesters-are-not-a-climate-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/news\/methane-digesters-are-not-a-climate-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Methane Digesters are Not a Climate Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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Last month, Farm Forward, as a member of the Stand Up to Factory Farms coalition, submitted testimony<\/a>\u00a0to the Oregon Senate committee on Natural Resources and Wildlife Recovery\u00a0urging the committee<\/a>\u00a0not to pass\u00a0Senate Bill 151: The Bovine Manure Tax Credit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the testimony, the coalition educated the Senate about how the bill “incentivizes and props up unsustainable mega-dairies in Oregon”, “to the disadvantage of family farm dairies”, “and the detriment of rural communities and the environment”, among other vital pieces of the bill’s impact that the Oregon Senate is sworn to protect its people against.<\/p>\n

Our testimony also warned about the misleading solution that biogas presents, which seems to be underwhelmingly understood by those who are blindly relying on its perceived benefits:<\/p>\n

\u00a0“Mega-dairy digesters are touted for their purported climate benefits from methane capture. But in reality, methane digesters are a false solution to climate change and have no place in Oregon’s clean energy future. Digesters at best capture only the additional methane created by the adoption of factory farm practices in the first place.”
\n\u2015 Farm Forward<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Senate Natural Resources and Wildlife Recovery committee has not yet voted on the bill.<\/p>\nRead the full testimony<\/a>\n

To support our work fighting on the right side of history, please consider making a donation<\/a> to the legislative policy program of Farm Forward.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oregon Senate sees the need to course correct its dairy industry, but the misconceived “methane digester” tax credit may have them headed in the wrong direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-environment","category-legislation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}