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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...