California’s Top Methane Emitter is a Vast Cattle Feedlot. For Now, Federal and State Greenhouse Gas Regulators Are Giving It a Pass.

insideclimatenews.org California’s Top Methane Emitter is a Vast Cattle Feedlot. For Now, Federal and State Greenhouse Gas Regulators Are Giving It a Pass. - Inside Climate News

Forty miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border in Southern California’s Imperial Valley, the Brandt Company cattle ranch is the largest single point source of methane emissions in the state, releasing more of that greenhouse gas than any oil or gas well, refinery or landfill.  The 643-acre feedlot...

California’s Top Methane Emitter is a Vast Cattle Feedlot. For Now, Federal and State Greenhouse Gas Regulators Are Giving It a Pass. - Inside Climate News

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California’s Top Methane Emitter is a Vast Cattle Feedlot. For Now, Federal and State Greenhouse Gas Regulators Are Giving It a Pass.

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Just one more reason to pass on that hamburger
- Places like this are frankly disgusting. Just driving past them is sickening, both physically and to the thought that part of the food supply comes from that. The cows that live in these environments, even for short times, simply cannot be healthy. Eating the meat from animals spending time in these conditions cannot healthy be either.

Funny how people are all "free market" until the market gives an outcome they don't like. In this case we should remove whatever regulation exempts this sort of behavior by feed lots. If you want to pollute you must pay.

Why not try flair the methane?
- Because you can't easily do that with cow burps
  
  just get the igniter from one of those bbq lighters.
  Add a pair of little strap on dragon wings for flair while you flare.