{"id":1812,"date":"2024-09-12T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2024-08-19T14:44:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T18:44:30","slug":"we-need-a-crackdown-on-landfill-gas-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/we-need-a-crackdown-on-landfill-gas-emissions\/","title":{"rendered":"We Need a Crackdown on Landfill Gas Emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Landfills account for more than 17 percent of human-caused methane pollution, making them the third highest-emitting U.S. sector for the\u00a0 pollutant, trailing only agriculture and oil and gas. And yet, controlling emissions from landfills costs far less than it does to achieve similar reductions in other sectors.\u00a0 The EPA has taken notice of this, and a crackdown on landfill gas emissions might be coming soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why Controlling Landfill Methane Is Key to Slowing Climate Change<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/why-controlling-landfill-methane-is-key-to-slowing-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/why-controlling-landfill-methane-is-key-to-slowing-climate-change\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9780593712771\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Landfills account for more than 17 percent of human-caused methane pollution, making them the third highest-emitting U.S. sector for the\u00a0 pollutant, trailing only agriculture and oil and gas. And yet, controlling emissions from landfills costs far less than it does to achieve similar reductions in other sectors.\u00a0 The EPA has taken notice of this, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/we-need-a-crackdown-on-landfill-gas-emissions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;We Need a Crackdown on Landfill Gas Emissions&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,53,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-global","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1869,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions\/1869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}