Reverse Course: Robot dogs sniff out landfill methane leaks

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🗓️ 27 January 2025

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Landfills are one of the biggest sources of methane emissions in the United States after oil and gas production and agriculture. New technology — such as robot dogs — is helping landfill operators find those leaks and measure them more frequently. Bryan Staley of the Environmental Research and Education Foundation joins us. Then, President Trump's plan for mass deportations is well underway. The Wall Street Journal's Michelle Hackman shares the latest on where migrants are being arrested and the Trump administration's strategy. And, Israel has allowed refugees to return to northern Gaza after Hamas turned over Israeli hostages. Hamas did not initially release a female civilian, jeopardizing the fragile ceasefire deal. The Economist's Anshel Pfeffer joins us.

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0:00.0	Support for here and now anytime comes from MathWorks, creator of MATLAB and Simulink software for technical computing and model-based design.
0:09.2	MathWorks, accelerating the pace of discovery in engineering and science.
0:13.8	Learn more at MathWorks.com.
0:16.0	The tool that we use or we can use to, I'll say, sniff out potential leaks at the landfill, right,
0:23.4	as dogs do.
0:25.3	Robot dogs help one landfill operator cut down on methane emissions.
0:30.8	Say what you will about robots on the job.
0:33.0	They're not bothered by the smell of working at the dump.
0:36.6	It's Monday, January 27th, and this is here
0:39.4	and now anytime from NPR and WBOR. I'm Chris Bentley. Today on the show, fear in
0:50.8	immigrant communities as the Trump administration steps up deportations.
0:55.7	And Palestinian refugees return to northern Gaza,
1:00.1	even though most of their homes have been destroyed.
1:03.6	My family homes, they are all destroyed.
1:07.9	So they have no place to actually stay in here.
1:12.4	But first, all this week, we're going to bring you some stories that really stink.
1:18.8	I'm talking about garbage.
1:20.1	For our climate series reverse course, Peter O'Dowd and I have been digging through the trash, sometimes literally,
1:27.3	to report on some ways
1:28.6	people are rethinking what gets thrown away. Waste is a major source of planet warming greenhouse
1:34.8	gas emissions. Everything from the clothes you wear to construction materials in your home. Almost
1:41.0	all of it eventually ends up in the landfill. And that's where we start today,
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