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Making Animal Waste Essential

‘Renewing’ Animal Agriculture through the Fraught Politics of Renewable Natural Gas Development

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Highlights:

  • This project focuses on the emerging biogas industry in North Carolina which is building up energy infrastructure to capture methane produced from animal agricultural waste that then turns it into renewable natural gas.
  •  The project asks what it means to make agricultural waste essential in the 'Just Transition' by exploring the implications to humans, animals, and the climate crisis.