The Scissortail Renewables project to capture and sell methane processed at the city landfill is nearing completion.

When household waste decomposes at a landfill, it produces methane, a greenhouse gas that traps significantly more heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide.

Methane leaks from sites like rice paddies, landfills, dairy farms and coal mines could be plugged with the help of gas-guzzling bacteria, helping to curb near-term global warming. Later this year ...

To learn more about methane released from landfills, the researchers chartered planes and flew as low as possible over 217 landfills in 17 states, using air-quality measuring devices.

Agri start-ups Grow Indigo and String Bio have joined hands to help rice farmers cut down on methane emissions through ... offering and scale it rapidly to over a million acres,” said Usha ...

and the plant in Taranto has been reliably producing biomethane since its commissioning in August 2024. ‘The methane recovery ...