EPA Highlights Efforts To Target Municipal Landfill Methane, Reporting

EPA’s enforcement office is issuing two “enforcement alerts” to raise awareness of its efforts to curb air emissions from landfills including the potent greenhouse gas methane, an initiative that the agency says has heightened importance because landfills are the third-largest domestic source of methane. One Sept. 25 alert says EPA has found municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill operators “are failing to properly conduct compliance monitoring and maintenance of gas collection and control systems” and are “violating landfill gas emission rate...