Did you know methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide? Uncaptured methane is 84 times more harmful than carbon dioxide, making it a significant driver of climate change. Landfills ...

The list of things that people don’t want “in their back yard” is long, but it certainly includes garbage — which makes siting a replacement landfill on an island with limited land exceedingly hard.

In 38 states, landfills are the largest source of methane emissions. Reducing atmospheric concentrations of this powerful greenhouse gas is a top priority for climate action. California has set the ...

A new lawsuit filed by Los Angeles County over a “smoldering, smelly” landfill is pulling no punches. The suit, filed this week in United States District Court, says that the Chiquita Canyon Landfill ...

PLAINFIELD TWP., Pa.- A proposed landfill expansion that has been the subject of countless meetings, reports, research and discussion- some of it heated- in the Slate Belt area for nearly a year will ...

Waste management workers haul tons of trash to the Courtney Ridge landfill several times each day. The landfill will eventually run out of space, and outrage over a new landfill has sparked ...

A Castaic landfill emitting noxious odors making nearby residents ill was hit with a report from a state environmental agency listing nearly a dozen serious problems and 15 recommended fixes that ...

Waste Management’s northern Broward landfill could be a step closer to going taller and wider. Broward commissioners voted Tuesday to set a future hearing for a vote that would allow the Monarch Hill ...

Jefferson County Tax Collector J.T. Smallwood has been campaigning to be mayor of Trussville, promising he’ll work to close a Birmingham landfill that butts up against a Trussville subdivision near a ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Above a gravel path carving through the east mound of Freshkills Park, an American kestrel, the smallest falcon in North America, flits through the air searching for insects on ...