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California landfills are belching high levels of climate-warming methane

Airborne remote sensing spots the Golden State’s biggest emitters of the gas from the sky

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A new airborne remote sensing technique found that landfills top the list of California’s superemitters of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

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By Carolyn Gramling

- More than 2 years ago

Landfills, pipelines or dairy farms: The largest sources of methane released to the atmosphere can now be spotted from the sky.