Money from manure.

• Position: Stateline

Green fields full of brown blobs have a new meaning in New York. That state has recently passed a law that provides incentives for farmers to produce electricity with the methane that comes from manure. In a state that has more than 7.7 million acres of farmland, supporting almost 1.5 million cattle, 80,000 hogs and 60,000 sheep, that's a lot of methane potential. By using bacteria...