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Chew On This: Farmers Are Using Food Waste To Make Electricity

Peter Melnik, a fourth-generation dairy farmer, owns Bar-Way Farm, Inc. in Deerfield, Mass. He has an anaerobic digester on his farm that converts food waste into renewable energy. Allison Aubrey/NPR hide caption

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Chew On This: Farmers Are Using Food Waste To Make Electricity

Dairy farmers in Massachusetts are using food waste to create renewable energy. Each farm produces enough to power about 1,500 homes. This helps prevent the release of methane, a greenhouse gas.

Opinion: Bill Ruckelshaus, Conservationist Who Also Protected The Rule Of Law

Washington, D.C.: William D. Ruckelshaus, director of the Environmental Protection Agency. Bettmann/Bettmann Archive hide caption

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Simon Says

Opinion: Bill Ruckelshaus, Conservationist Who Also Protected The Rule Of Law

by Scott Simon

2 min

Opinion: Bill Ruckelshaus, Conservationist Who Also Protected The Rule Of Law

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Possibility Of Female Deacons Gives Some Catholics Hope

Marie Andrews holds a pyx, the vessel she uses to transport the consecrated Communion wafer to homebound parishioners. Andrews is an officially sanctioned Eucharistic minister in the Roman Catholic Church. Shahla Farzan/St. Louis Public Radio hide caption

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Possibility Of Female Deacons Gives Some Catholics Hope

by Shahla Farzan

4 min

Possibility Of Female Deacons Gives Some Catholics Hope

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Chew On This: Farmers Are Using Food Waste To Make Electricity

Peter Melnik, a fourth-generation dairy farmer, owns Bar-Way Farm, Inc. in Deerfield, Mass. He has an anaerobic digester on his farm that converts food waste into renewable energy. Allison Aubrey/NPR hide caption

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The Salt

Chew On This: Farmers Are Using Food Waste To Make Electricity

by Allison Aubrey

4 min

Chew On This: Farmers Are Using Food Waste To Make Electricity

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Daniel Craig: 'Knives Out' Aims To Be One Of Those 'Grand Pieces Of Entertainment'

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Movie Interviews

Daniel Craig: 'Knives Out' Aims To Be One Of Those 'Grand Pieces Of Entertainment'

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6 min

Daniel Craig: 'Knives Out' Aims To Be One Of Those 'Grand Pieces Of Entertainment'

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