Methane is a heat-trapping greenhouse gas (GHG) that is 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Most methane comes from human activities - roughly 60 percent - such as agriculture, fossil fuels ...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is underestimating methane emissions from landfills, urban areas and U.S. states, ...
On Thursday, the climate-data sleuths at Carbon Mapper published a study in Science that shows U.S. landfills emit methane at levels ... The researchers found these super-emitting points can ...
Researchers have developed a chemical process using plasma that could create sustainable jet fuel from methane gas emitted from landfills, potentially creating a low-carbon aviation industry.
About 80% of the emissions detected at landfills – more than 850 unique methane plumes – released at least 100kg of methane an hour. That emission rate meets the “super-emitter” threshold ...
A landfill is a place of perpetual motion, where mountains of garbage rise in days and crews race to contain the influx of ever more trash. Amid the commotion, an invisible gas often escapes ...
so we can pinpoint methane super-emitters to the specific well pad, compressor station or section of a landfill. You can see an example of the power of remote sensing in our recent paper in the ...
This super-pollutant’s ability to trap heat and ... but our trash piling up in landfills is actually the third largest source of human-caused methane pollution in the United States.
Arizona State University Landfills in the United States are ... more than half of these facilities are methane “super-emitters,” releasing more than 100 kilograms of the potent greenhouse ...