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newsrel -- ARB adopts landfill measure to reduce potent global warming gas

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 11:56:44
Last of Discrete Early Measures adopted. 

Release 09-59
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 25, 2009
	  	  	
Leo Kay
916-322-2990
www.arb.ca.gov

ARB adopts landfill measure to reduce potent global warming gas

SACRAMENTO: The California Air Resources Board adopted a
regulation today aimed at capturing methane from landfills
throughout the state, a move that will reduce 1.5 million metric
tons of greenhouse gas emissions in the state's landmark fight
against global warming.

Today's regulation will require 14 uncontrolled municipal solid
waste landfills throughout the state to design and install new
gas collection and control systems by 2012. In addition, the
regulation will reduce emissions from landfills with existing
control systems by requiring them to be operated in a manner to
minimize methane emissions. ARB estimates that 218 of the state's
overall 367 municipal solid waste landfills with the potential to
generate methane emissions may be subject to the regulation.

Municipal waste landfills comprise California's second largest
man-made source of methane, which is 20 times more potent than
carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere. It is also a
precursor to ozone formation.

"Fixing the leaks in existing landfill gas collection systems is
a fast way to cut the methane gas that is directly harming the
earth's atmosphere," said ARB Chairman Mary D. Nichols. "Even
better, we will see an immediate health benefit, because methane
is a precursor to smog."

Today's adoption constitutes the final "early action measure"
required under the Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32) signed by
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2006.

AB 32 requires the state to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions
25 percent by 2020. The ARB has developed dozens of measures,
guidelines and regulations aimed at achieving this goal. The
landfill regulation accounts for the second biggest emission
reduction regulation approved by the ARB thus far, behind the Low
Carbon Fuel Standard.

The Air Resources Board is a department of the California
Environmental Protection Agency. ARB's mission is to promote and
protect public health, welfare, and ecological resources through
effective reduction of air pollutants while recognizing and
considering effects on the economy. The ARB oversees all air
pollution control efforts in California to attain and maintain
health based air quality standards.

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