Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Facing rapid population growth, Ada County officials have been trying to find creative ways to extend the life of the county ...

Methane is one of the most powerful greenhouse gases, warming the planet far faster than carbon dioxide over the short term.

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.

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. – Town Board members on Tuesday, Feb. 2, voted 5-0 to install a biofilter system at the former town landfill as part of a methane gas reduction project. Funding for the equipment and ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Landfills in Colorado release millions of metric tons of greenhouse gasses each year as organic waste including food, paper and yard trimmings decomposes ...

The state took a first small step toward requiring that dairies and livestock operations reduce their emissions of the ...

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 ...

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 ...