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 ...

State regulators on Thursday approved new rules seeking to reduce methane emissions from landfills, which will help in the ...

Satellites are emerging as a powerful new tool in the fight to curb emissions of methane. While methane is much shorter-lived ...

STORY: What if the carbon dioxide and methane that this landfill emits could power an airplane... ...and reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the same time? Australian ...

The new regulation adopts several new rules designed to tighten emissions monitoring and reduction, including the approval of ...

Editor’s note: The Colorado Air Quality Control Commission on Dec. 18 approved new regulations to reduce methane emissions from landfills in Colorado. Denver and WM, one of the nation’s largest waste ...

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 ...

Food waste and other organic material dumped in landfills produces methane and other pollutants as it decomposes. Colorado’s ...

The final home for much of Houston’s municipal trash emits a putrid stench as hundreds of garbage trucks crawl up its dirt slopes every day. But one of the most potent gases released at the McCarty ...

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 ...