Because the city of Hamilton owned what started as a private landfill in the 1940s, it’s on the hook for part of the remediation efforts, which could cost upwards of $400,000. Pending City Council ...

FARGO — As far as stink goes, the Fargo and Clay County landfills are working to keep any smell to a bare minimum. Both are currently working on expanding methane gas collection systems. As garbage ...

Figure 1: Quantity of municipal solid waste disposed of in US landfills. In the near term, landfilling is expected to be the dominant method to manage municipal waste in the US. We found that the ...

Methane emissions from landfills—one of the largest sources of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions—could be reduced through stronger regulations and better emissions monitoring, according to a new report by ...

The pipeline agency is considering collecting more data on the unregulated gas gathering lines, but the plans are still preliminary and have met with some resistance from the natural gas industry.

The private landfill operator called in to repair the gas collection system at a problematic portion of Jefferson Parish's dilapidated dump has finished the work early and under budget, a company ...

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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 ...

Increasing rates of recycling and composting, as well as incentivizing energy-from-waste facilities, would reduce our reliance on landfills and help lower greenhouse-gas emissions in the United States ...