CARB Adopts Stricter Landfill Methane Rules Amid Air Districts’ Concerns

California Air Resources Board (CARB) members are touting their adoption of stricter monitoring and other rules to reduce methane emissions from landfills as a nation-leading action to combat climate change, but local air regulators and others are raising concerns about the feasibility and cost of implementing the new standards. “This is another example of California’s leadership in reducing emissions and harmful climate-warming pollutants across all sources,” said CARB Chair Lauren Sanchez in a Nov. 20 press release, shortly after the...