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 ...

The new facility will reduce odor and provide renewable energy for homes, industry and transportation.

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.

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 ...

LIVERMORE - Hundreds of trash trucks across California are rumbling down city streets using clean fuel made from a dirty source: garbage. The fuel is derived from rotting refuse that San Francisco and ...

Colorado is making great strides in clean energy and electrifying transportation. But there’s an untapped opportunity for us from an unexpected source: our trash. By updating how we regulate ...

The project, anticipated to be a partnership between WM, City of Denver and Arapahoe County, still needs to go through permitting. DENVER - All landfills face a similar challenge. "Decomposition ...

Loudoun County’s Board of Supervisors hopes to turn a harmful gas from the county’s landfill into renewable natural gas, perhaps within the next five years. Loudoun’s landfill, located on Evergreen ...

Satellites are emerging as a powerful new tool in the fight to curb emissions of methane. While methane is much shorter-lived in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, it is vastly more potent at ...

A vast canyon of buried garbage has been smoldering inside a landfill in the Santa Clarita Valley, inducing geysers of liquid waste onto the surface and noxious fumes into the air. In the Inland ...

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 ...