BMW's plans to offset EV emissions with cow dung could be greenwashing

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The practice is incentivised but is it eco-friendly?

In the last ten years, biogas energy derived from animal waste has served as an additional income for dairy farmers. Methane digesters have become popular with automakers like BMW that use those offsets to charge their electric vehicles with more eco-friendly options.

According to the report, the Union of Concerned Scientists had this to say about the dairy farmers’ efforts: California even has an incentive program introduced in 2011 called the low carbon fuel standard which rewards dairy farmers forBut the system is not without flaws as it awards credits to farmers at a much higher magnitude than the cost to operate and maintain a methane digester.

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