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The landfill, which is owned and operated by Republic Services, detected more than 20 instances that went over federal limits for methane emissions during a quarterly inspection in August.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that decomposing landfill waste releases over 17% of the country’s human-produced emissions of the powerful global warming agent.

But Jackson said the current trend with methane emissions has the world on target for warming of 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit), twice the goal of the 2015 Paris climate agreement.