Beef and dairy cattle, along with pigs and other farm animals, contribute roughly 27% of U.S. methane emissions. The push to curb animal belching, though, has proven tricky.
The Biden administration is taking aggressive steps to curb the energy industry’s methane emissions, tightening pipeline regulations and spending billions of dollars to clean up abandoned coal mines and other sources of the potent greenhouse gas.But it hasn't proposed any new air-pollution regulations targeting agricultural sources of greenhouse gases.
That puts agriculture on par with the energy industry in methane emissions, with natural gas and petroleum generating 30% and coal mining 10%.EPA administrator Michael Regan said when asked recently about regulating methane from agricultural sources. “You know, I can’t promise that we’re going to have anything this year, but it’s on the menu.”
While carbon dioxide is considered the biggest global warming contributor, methane traps roughly 85 times as much heat. Oil-and-gas industry groups haven’t pressed for methane regulations on agriculture, in part because they don’t want to antagonize lawmakers in rural districts, who often represent both energy companies and agribusiness.Farmers and agricultural researchers say there are no easy solutions.said Frank Mitloehner, a University of California, Davis researcher who has tested natural ingredients such as garlic as feed additives to reduce methane from cows.
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