Facing rapid population growth, Ada County officials have been trying to find creative ways to extend the life of the county landfill. Now, they’re cookin’ with gas. Biogas Development, a ...

Landfill owner Republic Services won't comply with two of the actions DEQ has asked it to take to address serious methane ...

The project, anticipated to be a partnership between WM, City of Denver and Arapahoe County, still needs to go through permitting.

The Loess Hills Regional Sanitary Landfill is one of a handful of landfills in Iowa that converts landfill gas into renewable natural gas. (Photo courtesy of Bret Stephens/Loess Hills Landfill) When ...

Satellites are giving cities a clearer view of methane emissions from landfills, turning hard-to-spot leaks into actionable ...

A single flip-flop. An empty Chick-fil-A sandwich bag. A mattress. A sneaker, navy with a white sole. A little orange bouncy ball. Garbage is strewn among thigh-high drifts of dirt, used to bury the ...

LIVERMORE - Hundreds of trash trucks across California are rumbling down city streets using clean fuel made from a dirty source: garbage. The fuel is derived from rotting refuse that San Francisco and ...

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Colorado is making great strides in clean energy and electrifying transportation. But there’s an untapped opportunity for us from an unexpected source: our trash. By updating how we regulate ...

IOWA (Iowa Capital Dispatch) - When household waste decomposes at a landfill, it produces methane, a greenhouse gas that traps significantly more heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. The U.S.

Any climate action plan that wants to quickly turn the tide of global warming has to tackle methane, which traps orders of magnitude more heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide in the first years ...