#Methane supercharges climate change. The U.S. has a new plan to slash it.
▻https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/climate-bill-has-plan-to-slash-methane-emissions
https://i.natgeofe.com/n/f7aab303-59cb-4896-9575-53ce25e3e130/GettyImages-1351209981_16x9.jpg?w=1200 Yet, of all the sources producing methane in the U.S., raising livestock creates nearly as many emissions as oil and gas. A cow’s digestive system breaks down food through a process called enteric fermentation, resulting in methane-filled burps. With nearly 40 million cows being raised for beef and dairy in the U.S. those expulsions produce nearly a third of the country’s methane emissions every year, according to the EPA.
Despite research investigating how cattle feed sprinkled with seaweed reduces the methane in cow burps, any actions that require changes to the ag sector would be next to impossible to get through the divided Congress. Few politically possible options exist at a scale capable of meaningfully reducing emissions.
“I think #agriculture is a really hard one,” says Shindell. “It’s going to be an enormous amount of work to get legislation affecting agriculture.”
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