Keith Schneider

Prompted by persistent complaints of odor and contamination, regulators from the Ohio Agriculture Department and the state Environmental Protection Agency investigated earlier this year and cited nine farms for manure mismanagement, and issued fines to three farms for failing to secure proper operating permits.

A bipartisan group of representatives proposed two statutes last June that would essentially exempt manure digester wastes from EGLE's new oversight.

Michigan State’s Jason Rowntree is out to prove that ranching is an ecological asset.

The Michigan Supreme Court gave the state Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy some disputed discretion in implementing rules on agricultural water pollution.

Chevron and two utilities are building big methane biodigesters on the state’s largest dairies.

Ineffective voluntary water pollution prevention practices are set aside for mandatory regulations.