AS the United States President Joe Biden’s (pic) administration seeks to revive its ambitious social spending and climate plan in Congress, environmental groups and the farm industry are at odds over proposed subsidies aimed at offsetting agriculture’s substantial contribution to global warming.
Tax credits and grants proposed in the administration’s sweeping “Build Back Better” (BBB) bill would bolster the small but fast-growing market for manure-based methane gas by supporting construction of machines that trap the gas from open manure pits on dairy farms and other livestock operations.
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