[middlefinger]

As part of its plan to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, the Obama administration is targeting the dairy industry to reduce methane emissions in their operations.

This comes despite falling methane emission levels across the economy since 1990.

The White House has proposed cutting methane emissions from the dairy industry by 25 percent by 2020. Although U.S. agriculture only accounts for about 9 percent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, it makes up a sizeable portion of methane emissions — which is a very potent greenhouse gas.

“Cows emit a massive amount of methane through belching, with a lesser amount through flatulence,” according to How Stuff Works. “Statistics vary regarding how much methane the average dairy cow expels. Some experts say 100 liters to 200 liters a day… while others say it’s up to 500 liters… a day. In any case, that’s a lot of methane, an amount comparable to the pollution produced by a car in a day.”

“Of all domestic animal types, beef and dairy cattle were by far the largest emitters of [methane],” according to an EPA analysis charting greenhouse gas emissions in 2012. Cows and other animals produce methane through digestion, which ferments the food of animals.

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[Mr_Gixxer]

How, oh how, did this fragile earth ever fucking turn before these idiots took power?

[Ten*K]

There is more damage done by the Dems' mouth flatulence than anything coming out of a bovine back end.

[bob308]

lets see . they are about to get us in another war. the southern border is wide open. drug, cartels are making you a laughing stock, the value of the dollar is dropping like a rock, you are robbing the people that work and produce to support the ones that don't and you are worried about cow farts.

[Camper]

Just shut up and color, you racists.

[schr8er2000]

Seems to me that there us more flatulence coming out of Washington DC than ALL the cows in the US.... hell, if we could package all the bullshit they throw out we could fertilize the world...

[MrPeanut]

He wants to plug Nancy Pelosi's ass?

[bac0nfat]

What are they actually proposing?

[Coops]

This story came out four days too early.

They are planning on capturing the methane to do what? Burn it and turn it into CO2. Granted, CO2 is a weaker greenhouse gas, but in the same breath they blast fossil fuels while proposing to use more of them.

[spblademaker]

There is a greater threat to mankind every time Moochelle queefs!