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The Environmental Integrity Project, a nonprofit that advocates for more stringent environmental regulation, found that competing methodologies could reveal the total emissions from landfills to be anywhere from 5.7 million metric tons of methane to 2.3 million metric tons of methane, according to a report released Thursday.
EIP is urging the U.S. EPA to update its greenhouse gas reporting methodology to develop consistent and more accurate measurements of methane emissions from landfills. The nonprofit reached a settlement agreement with the EPA in February in which the federal agency agreed to update the model it used to calculate emissions from landfills for the first time since 1998.
EPA included some of the changes EIP is calling for, including better accounting for landfill covers and methane plumes, in a proposed rulemaking for the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program it published in the Federal Register on May 5.
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