WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - Have you ever driven by a landfill and gotten a big, stinky whiff? It actually doesn’t smell that way most of the time. The Marathon County Solid Waste Department can somewhat ...
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.
BOISE, Idaho — The Ada County Landfill unveiled a new renewable natural gas facility Tuesday that converts methane emissions from decomposing waste into natural gas, providing heat and gas for ...
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Waga Energy will convert landfill gas into renewable natural gas, offsetting significant CO2 emissions and improving air quality in Kern County. Kern County Public Works ...
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 ...
Waga Energy WAGABOX (right) unit of RNG production at Bath Landfill, Steuben County, N.Y. (Courtesy of Waga Energy) This story is part of the WHYY News Climate Desk, bringing you news and solutions ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s method of detecting methane leaks at landfills is flawed, and emissions of this powerful heat-trapping gas are likely much higher than what is being reported ...
One promising solution to the climate change crisis is harnessing landfill gas for renewable energy production. This creative approach to transform waste into clean energy is the mission of ...
To keep up with Polk County’s population boom, a corresponding growth in solid waste facilities will be coming online this year and for years to come. There is the planned expansion of the North ...
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — What was supposed to be a modest money-maker has turned into a financial windfall. City officials expected to make about $1 million annually from the Murrow Energy gas plant ...
Five years ago, Elizabeth Jeffords stood at the top of a pretty, tree-lined street in Castaic, California, admiring the house she and her husband just bought. She loved how the two-story house, about ...
Atmospheric pressure plasma processing and machining represent a transformative suite of techniques that utilise ionised gases, or plasmas, at ambient pressures to perform high-precision material ...