A new draft report from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has shown that, when it came to such emissions in 2012, the country’s biggest beef was with cattle.
Ruminant livestock belched and farted their way ahead of US natural gas systems to become the leading emitters, with landfills in third place and coal mining in fourth.
Enteric fermentation - where animals such as cows use microorganisms in multiple stomachs to break down carbohydrates – has seen methane emissions from cattle in the US rise 2% since 1990.
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