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 ...
The Elkhart County Landfill expansion and methane gas capture project advanced Tuesday, Jan. 20 as county commissioners ...
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NEW YORK, Aug. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A new report by the NGO Energy Vision finds advanced landfill tech" (ALT) for controlling landfill methane is among the lowest-cost greenhouse gas cutting ...
A facility that captures emissions at an Atlantic County landfill and converts it to natural gas has begun commercial operations, officials announced. OPAL Fuels, South Jersey Industries, and the ...
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.
Evolution of landfill gas uses When combusted, methane is converted to carbon dioxide, which while still a greenhouse gas, has a much lower global warming potential than methane. Sending captured ...
Sending captured landfill gas up through a flare reduces the emissions of a landfill, by converting that methane to carbon dioxide. But Foster said there is also a potential for energy capture that ...