Colleen O’Neil, of the Mountain Watershed Association, fixes a crooked sign posted near a landfill's discharge pipe that flows into Sewickley Creek in Yukon, Pa. Credit: Scott Goldsmith/Inside Climate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Landfills are the third-largest source of methane emissions both in the U.S. and globally. These emissions heat the atmosphere at ...

Remember the banana peels, apple cores, and leftover pizza you recently threw in the garbage? Today, your food waste—and your neighbors’—is emitting climate-warming greenhouse gases as it decomposes ...

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A state board is hearing testimony this week about the Caton Landfill near Naches. A multi-day hearing is taking place before the Pollution Control Hearings Board, a quasi-judicial body under the ...

The Chiquita Canyon Landfill in Southern California is a significant source of methane gas pollution, impacting the health of nearby residents. However, state officials have yet to address the ...

Support for this reporting was provided by the Wake Forest University Environmental and Epistemic Justice Initiative. Celeste Gracia is a 2024 fellow of the program. A constant stream of 18-wheeler ...

The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission voted unanimously to adopt an administrative law judge's recommended order mostly tossing the city of Tontitown's appeal of the decision to grant ...

Colorado is making great strides in clean energy and electrifying transportation. But there’s an untapped opportunity for us from an unexpected source: our trash. By updating how we regulate ...

YORK COUNTY, Pa. — A district judge ruled Monday in favor of environmentalists in a lawsuit against Republic Services' Modern Landfill, finding the company violated clean water regulations hundreds of ...

The St. Louis County Regional Landfill is now accepting waste from five counties in the region, as well as the City of Duluth. The landfill is now seeing around three ...