Satellites are emerging as a powerful new tool in the fight to curb emissions of methane. While methane is much shorter-lived in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, it is vastly more potent at ...

Denver and WM, one of the nation’s largest waste companies, will soon turn the city landfill into Colorado’s first garbage dump that converts methane into renewable natural gas — repurposing a ...

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The Sacramento skyline stands in the distance as piles of organic waste are processed at the Yolo County Central Landfill in September 2022. On Nov. 4, 2025, the California Air Resources Board ...

The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality is investigating an old landfill site emitting methane onto nearby properties in Fayetteville, DEQ and Cumberland County officials said this ...

Scientists found that natural bacteria can eat methane, cut climate pollution, and turn waste gas into useful materials.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Editor’s note: The Colorado Air Quality Control Commission on Dec. 18 approved new regulations to reduce methane emissions from landfills in Colorado. Denver ...