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 ...
Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is being released from landfills and oil and gas operations around the world in far larger amounts than governments realized, recent airborne and satellite surveys ...
The researchers found these super-emitting points can persist for months or even years, and account for almost 90 percent of all measured methane from the landfills. Tackling these hotspots could ...
Let’s keep organics out of the trash, so landfills are not their final resting place. And let’s tighten emissions controls nationwide, so small leaks don’t become super-emitters The EPA is ...
We surveyed 20% of the open landfills in the U.S. with airplanes ... and carbon dioxide to determine the origins of individual super-emitters. Once we use spectroscopy to measure the amount ...
The state recently ranked eighth in the country for highest methane emissions from landfills – up one spot from the previous year. Landfills lead other Illinois industries like mining ...
We surveyed 20% of the open landfills in the U.S. with airplanes ... and carbon dioxide to determine the origins of individual super-emitters. Once we use spectroscopy to measure the amount ...
Super PACs are a relatively new type of committee that arose following the July 2010 federal court decision in a case known as SpeechNow.org v. Federal Election Commission. Technically known as ...
The state has so far found PFAS-contaminated drinking water supplies in 51 wells near former landfills, but no one will say which landfills are leaking. Some of Maine’s defunct landfills are ...
"I legitimately lost my Super Bowl ring in this event," Jason ... one of North America's largest landfills, to see if he could track down the ring.In the video player above, watch Rumpke landfill ...
The kids from Corron Elementary School in Community Unit School District 303 have put together a recycling program that is keeping about 100 pounds of plastic from reaching landfills weekly in ...