When Melinda Sims first started LoCI Controls, a company that provides landfills with real-time data on methane collection, she wasn’t trying to address climate change. It was 2012, and methane — a ...

"The EPA uses 75% efficacy as the default for methane collection, but we find that it's actually much closer to 50%." The EPA estimates also do not capture one-off events, such as construction ...

Because the city of Hamilton owned what started as a private landfill in the 1940s, it’s on the hook for part of the remediation efforts, which could cost upwards of $400,000. Pending City Council ...

Methane is a potent gas, from the perspective of climate at least. Although it doesn’t remain in the atmosphere as long as carbon dioxide does, it has more than 80 times the warming power of CO2 over ...

The House on Thursday approved legislation that would allow hog farms across North Carolina to set up methane collection operations without each one going through an individual permitting process. The ...

A single flip-flop. An empty Chick-fil-A sandwich bag. A mattress. A sneaker, navy with a white sole. A little orange bouncy ball. Garbage is strewn among thigh-high drifts of dirt, used to bury the ...

Most organic household waste ends up in landfills, where it generates methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. Composting food and garden waste instead of sending it to landfills can significantly reduce ...

Can a carbohydrate actually suck methane, a greenhouse gas, directly out of the air? Researchers at the University of Copenhagen’s Faculty of Science are in the process of finding out. Methane gas is ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is underestimating methane emissions from landfills, urban areas and U.S. states, according to a new study. The researchers combined 2019 satellite ...