Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, and cows are a major source of it. A group of scientists is developing a proof of ...

The latest beef in Olympia? Cow burps, farts, and poops. Washington lawmakers are considering a bill that seeks to gather ...

A Republican lawmaker made an unusual suggestion during a public hearing Thursday on a bill that could lead to a fart tax on ...

House Bill 1630 (HB 1630) mandates that dairy farms and feedlots report their annual methane emissions — a lot produced from cow burps and farts — to the state’s Department of Ecology.

and the target is an absolute minimum of 30% reduction in methane emissions.” Scientists have been working on the idea of a “cow fart vaccine” for well over a decade, according to Hammond ...

The bill’s stated goal is to better understand the scale and scope of these emissions from dairies ... or what lawmakers intend to do with the cow-fart data, but that didn’t stop House ...