Posts Tagged ‘quantifying’

New study assesses hundreds of US landfills to quantifying methane emissions

Image Credit: Mohammed Saber/EPA-EFE According to a new study, more than half the landfills in the United States are “super-emitters” of methane. Methane, a heat-trapping greenhouse gas (GHG), is 28 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. The study, “Quantifying methane emissions from United States landfills,” was led by nonprofit Carbon Mapper and published in the […]

Quantifying the additional killings commited by cops when they get military weapons

The US Department of Defense’s 1033 program sends “surplus” military equipment to US police forces (“surplus” in quotes because military contractors lobby for the US military to buy more weapons than they need in order to feed materiel to the program), which has created a situation in which cops show up in their […]

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