«A bioreactor containing anaerobic methane and ammonium oxidizing microorganisms can be used to simultaneously convert ammonium, methane and oxidized nitrogen in wastewater into
harmless nitrogen gas and carbon dioxide, which has much lower global warming potential.»
Among many low points, this may have reached its nadir when a House member from Nebraska asked, smirkingly and out of the blue, whether
nitrogen should be banned — presumably to make the point that atmospheric
gases are all either
harmless or outright beneficial, and hence, should not be regulated.