FACT SHEET: REJECT MANURE BIOGAS AS A METHANE SOLUTION 1

policies on both the federal and state levels reward these industrial-scale polluters through incentives and taxpayer-funded subsidies that Industrial Animal Agriculture Is an encourage the expansion of manure biogas, Environmental and Public Health or factory farm gas, under the guise of climate change mitigation.7 Hazard Unfortunately, these policies create perverse Concentrated animal feeding o. [...] to the massive amounts of manure — as much as one billion tons — that that industrial-scale 3 Consolidate such that even fewer farms farms generate.2 The waste causes considerable confine an even larger number of animals to water and air pollution and threatens the health produce as much manure as possible. [...] z Manure biogas systems are typically only • The suering of more than nine billion feasible at the largest CAFOs and rely on animals raised for food in intolerably cruel the existence and perpetuation of the most conditions. [...] of nutrients in digestate that contribute to water pollution,10 and new pipelines and • Most forms of localized air and water trucks to transport manure or biogas. [...] 3 Set a specific methane reduction target and 7 Regulate waste from both CAFOs and pathway for the agricultural sector aligned digesters, including treatment and with the Global Methane Pledge.   application of digestate.   4 Require and improve methane monitoring 8 Require disclosure of basic data from and reporting from livestock operations.   CAFOs and digester operators and fund and conduct re.