Aerial observations of hundreds of large landfills across 18 states found they are leaking 40 percent more methane than is reported to the EPA Will Sullivan Daily Correspondent Methane plumes ...
Far more methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is being released from landfills and oil and gas operations around the world than ...
Landfill trash is the third-largest source of human-caused methane pollution in the US. To fight global heating, curb waste ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON, March 28 (Reuters) - Over half of U.S. landfills observed by aerial surveys are super-emitting sources of methane, according to a new study in the journal Science published on Thursday.
Garbage piling up in landfills isn’t just an eyesore, it’s also a climate nightmare, belching out large amounts of planet-warming methane gas. In the United States, the problem could be much ...
The U.S. EPA’s latest inventory of greenhouse gas emissions also tallied emissions from municipal solid waste combustion and anaerobic digestion.
Every year, Americans dump over 250 million metric tons of garbage into landfills, where it seems to magically disappear from our lives. In reality, our trash either gets fossilized or digested by ...
April 16 (UPI) --Far more methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is being released from landfills and oil and gas operations around the world than governments realized, recent airborne and satellite ...
The U.S. tosses, on average, 350 pounds of edible grub per person a year, which ranks it among the biggest wasters in the ...
Methane is a heat-trapping greenhouse gas (GHG) that is 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Most methane comes from ...