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Pork Producer Plans to Capture Methane Gas to Fight Climate Change

Food giant Smithfield Foods will harness gas from hog manure lagoons to heat homes

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The world’s largest pork producer is teaming up with a Virginia-based energy company to harness methane gas from thousands of malodorous hog lagoons to both heat homes and combat climate change, reports The Washington Post.

Food giant Smithfield Foods and Dominion Energy, a large electric and gas utility, have agreed to spend $125 million each over 10 years to cover hog lagoons in North Carolina, Virginia and Utah, capture methane gas and feed that into Dominion’s pipeline network, the companies said.

The joint venture, which would be one of the largest animal waste-to-energy efforts of its kind, would be a step forward in containing U.S. agricultural emissions, which account for 9% of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. The states were chosen because both companies have operations there.

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