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 super-pollutant that traps 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide over a 20-year time period — wasn’t yet a part of the national conversation around lowering … Continue reading “This automated tool helps tackle methane emissions from landfills”
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One of California’s biggest sources of methane pollution — its massive dairy industry — operates almost entirely without regulation. In fact, not only do the state’s largest dairies face no penalties for emitting methane, they can actually profit handsomely from those emissions. If the staff of the state’s air regulator get their way in an … Continue reading “California could lock in disastrous dairy methane rules, advocates warn”
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Numerous safety violations have been detected at the fast-growing landfill. It’s part of a larger pattern of problems with how the U.S. handles waste. Isobel Whitcomb is a science and environmental journalist based in Portland, Oregon. In rural Benton County, brigades of waste-collection vehicles lumber through forested hills and wheat fields, each truck trailed by an … Continue reading “A huge landfill in Oregon is spewing methane. Its owners want to expand.”