When Melinda Sims first started LoCI Controls, a company that provides landfills with real-time data on methane collection, she wasn’t trying to address climate change. It was 2012, and methane — a ...

The disparity is wider for landfills that collect methane as part of their operations. Landfills don't measure the exact amounts of methane they are losing, but rather estimate how efficient their ...

GOSHEN — A methane conversion plant at the Elkhart County Landfill will ramp up to maximum capacity as soon as it goes live in late 2026. The Elkhart County Board of Commissioners on Monday approved ...

Most organic household waste ends up in landfills, where it generates methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. Composting food and garden waste instead of sending it to landfills can significantly reduce ...

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KENTWOOD, MI -- A new plan from Kent County officials is aimed at addressing concerns of explosive methane gas seeping from the long-closed Kentwood Landfill. Officials first detected methane outside ...

May 2—ENID, Ok. — The city is set to approve a private agreement to install a new methane collection system at Enid's landfill and then sell the leftover gas. City commissioners will vote on a 25-year ...

Scientist Gabrielle Petron looks out into the world and sees numbers. In her work for the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Petron plots data on her computer like most ...

Few waste-to-energy (WTE) plants have been completed in the U.S. since the mid 1990s, but the story is different around the world, where WTE technology is seen as a suitable solution to municipal ...

LONDON, Aug. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P Global Platts ("Platts"), the leading independent provider of information, analytics, and benchmark prices for the commodities and energy markets, commenced ...

Can a carbohydrate actually suck methane, a greenhouse gas, directly out of the air? Researchers at the University of Copenhagen’s Faculty of Science are in the process of finding out. Methane gas is ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is underestimating methane emissions from landfills, urban areas and U.S. states, according to a new study. The researchers combined 2019 satellite ...