Big Ag loves to tout a fantasy where factory farm gas, which is methane gas produced from waste like manure, is good for the environment. The reality is that factory farm gas rewards factory farms for producing more climate-heating gas and entrenches a system of ever larger, more concentrated animal agriculture. Factory farm gas-related projects sometimes require permission from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) before they can go forward. Under federal law, FERC can only grant that permission when a proposed project would serve the “public convenience and necessity.” That means FERC can only give the go-ahead to a project if its benefits outweigh its negative effects, including any environmental harms from the project.

In 2025, USDA abandoned farmers by recklessly terminating millions of dollars in grants, all to fall in line with the Trump administration’s crusade against DEI, environmental justice, and climate action. We suspected that the “process” for finding grants the administration found worthy of termination was hardly more than a simple search through grant documents for words it associated with diversity, equity, inclusion, or climate change. Now we can prove it.

Industrial aquaculture poses many of the same threats as industrial land-based agriculture does to clean water and healthy ecosystems. For more than three years, Pacific Bio Products, owned by seafood giant Pacific Seafood, has illegally polluted the Columbia River by discharging pollutants like chlorine and…