Fired-clay bricks incorporating biosolids, [Credit: RMIT University][/caption] Clay fired bricks containing recycled sewage biosolids could offer a sustainable solution for brick manufacturing and wastewater treatment. Sewage sludge is the byproduct that remains after sewage is processed at a wastewater...
In response to Assembly Bill (AB) 617 (C. Garcia, Chapter 136, Statutes of 2017), The California Air Resources Board (CARB) established the Community Air Protection Program (CAPP or Program). The CAPP's primary goal is to reduce exposure to air pollutants...
The American Biogas Council (ABC), a trade organization representing the biogas industry in the US, has hailed the Agricultural Environmental Stewardship Act recently introduced by Congressmen Ron Kind and Tom Reed The bill (H.R. 3744), which was reintroduced July 12th,...
The average elevation above sea level in Florida is around 6 feet. That means, averaging at 300 feet, the local landfill is likely the highest point around any city in the Sunshine State. You might know landfills as the stinky...
Your aluminum cans and empty peanut butter jars make it to the blue bin. If you're a boomer and still read the newspaper, your daily serving of overpriced corporate garba...err, media makes its way to the blue bin as well....
The Arctic is not only getting hotter, it is warming faster than any other region on Earth, causing permafrost to melt, releasing methane as it thaws. A recent study conducted by scientists from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis...
The tiered methane observation program will use towers, aircraft, on-road vehicle surveys, post-meter residential and commercial measurements, and low-cost sensors to detect methane emissions. (Credit Berkeley Labs)[/caption] Methane, an abundant greenhouse gas more than 25 times more potent than carbon...
Nutrient laden wastewater has fueled toxic algal blooms which have subsequently clogged freshwater systems worldwide, including Florida's estuaries, the Mississippi River Basin, lakes in China, and everywhere in-between. When fertilizer-laden runoff or nutrient-rich wastewater effluent is discharged into rivers it provides a...
A Cornell-Environmental Defense Fund research team equipped a Google Street View car with a high-precision methane sensor and found methane emissions from ammonia fertilizer plants to be 100 times higher than the fertilizer industry's self-reported estimate. Methane emissions produced by...
