Landfills are a major problem for the climate: They’re the United States’ third-largest source of methane, a greenhouse gas that traps 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide in the short term. Last ...

New rules intended to keep a tighter lid on methane gas leaking from the state's landfills as food and garbage decompose went into effect last month. The state Department of Ecology estimates the new ...

Esther Salazar, Carmen Molina, and Marco Velasquez work to classify donated food at Banco de Alimentos Quito. (Credit: The Global FoodBanking Network/Ana María Buitron) Ignacion Mendez, a volunteer, ...

What Happened? To assist in meeting the state’s target of reducing methane emissions by 40% by 2030, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) recently proposed significant amendments to its Landfill ...

Yeti crabs, shrimp, sea worms and starfish. And that’s just to name a few. They live between 1,800 and 3,600 meters below the Pacific Ocean off the shores of Costa Rica. A team of scientists, led by ...

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 ...

A truck drops off trash on the South Kent County Landfill. (Photo by Nick Hagen / Planet Detroit) This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read ...

More than a decade ago, the Mesa County Landfill voluntarily began capturing and burning off the methane generated by the organic waste disposed of there. Now, county officials are watching with ...

State regulators said the rules would cost $12 million annually but save $34 million per year in health and environmental costs. California air regulators approved regulations on Thursday to tighten ...

In this episode of Tax Notes Talk, Tax Notes contributing editor Nana Ama Sarfo discusses methane-related tax policy and how it might lead to future taxation of greenhouse gas emissions. Tax Notes ...