Waste Not, Want Not: How Methane Biogases Can Help Us Reach Our Climate Goals

The Biden administration is cracking down on methane emissions from oil and gas operations.  

Officially, they account for 28 percent of U.S. methane emissions, though a new study shows their methane leaks are even worse than we thought. But we also need deep cuts in emissions from other major methane sources, including agriculture (currently 34 percent of U.S. methane emissions and rising, as EPA’s latest greenhouse gas inventory notes) and landfills (16 percent of U.S. methane emissions, according to EPA, though new data indicates landfills emit 40 percent more methane than previously reported). 

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