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Wed Jul 31, 2024, 07:31 AM Jul 2024

Why Controlling Landfill Methane Is Key to Slowing Climate Change

The EPA plans to propose a rule in 2025 that will tackle methane emissions from landfills, one of the country's largest sources of the greenhouse gas

BY JEAN CHEMNICK & E&E NEWS

CLIMATEWIRE | EPA has quietly teed up what could become the first important climate rule of a potential Kamala Harris administration: a crackdown on landfill gas.

The agency announced last week that it plans to review its 2016 standards for landfill emissions. The notice came as an item on a White House fact sheet for last Tuesday’s summit on heat-trapping super pollutants, and EPA told POLITICO's E&E News that it expects to issue a draft rule in 2025 for new and existing landfills.

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“We feel really strongly that very substantial reductions are possible at very low cost,” said John Coequyt, U.S. government affairs director for the think tank RMI.

Methane has 80 times the heat-trapping capability of carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. And landfill gas — a mix of methane and CO2 with traces of other pollutants — can cause ozone, particle pollution and odors.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-controlling-landfill-methane-is-key-to-slowing-climate-change/?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

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Not to mention methane gas flaring by the oil industry nt Wicked Blue Jul 2024 #1
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