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Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP)

By | Published: January 5, 2010
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a special outreach program for garbage landfills. The program encourages trash dumps to create methane and liquid natural gas. EPA manager Tom Frankiewicz says, “Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide. Methane is also the main component of natural gas, so by capturing and using [...]
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Climate Change And The Food We Eat

By | Published: December 27, 2009
Environmental Protection Agency — Agriculture is highly sensitive to climate variability and weather extremes, such as droughts, floods and severe storms. The forces that shape our climate are also critical to farm productivity. Human activity has already changed atmospheric characteristics such as temperature, rainfall, levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) and ground level ozone. The scientific [...]
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Special Earth Day Hearing

By | Published: April 22, 2009
(Washington, D.C. – April 21, 2009) Tomorrow, April 22, 2009, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will testify before a joint hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Energy and Environment Subcommittee. The special Earth Day hearing will focus on the American Clean [...]
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