Landfills in the United States are larger sources of methane than previously thought—according to a new study, more than half ...
Landfill trash is the third-largest source of human-caused methane pollution in the US. To fight global heating, curb waste ...
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 ...
The U.S. EPA’s latest inventory of greenhouse gas emissions also tallied emissions from municipal solid waste combustion and anaerobic digestion.
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 ...
Rob Jackson, professor of environmental science at Stanford University, who was not involved with the study, said landfills were “super-emitters.” “Airborne data such as these verify what we ...
Around 52% of landfills had observable methane emission point sources compared to the 0.2% to 1% of "super-emitter" sites in the oil and gas sector, the largest U.S. source of methane. Super ...
Methane is a heat-trapping greenhouse gas (GHG) that is 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Most methane comes from ...