David Kempisty   Each week, millions of Americans roll their bins to the curb and never think twice about what comes next.

Greg Johnson PFAS are known as “forever chemicals” because of their persistence in the environment. The U.S. EPA is actively developing new ...

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 ...

Courtesy Beyond Toxics The county had to turn instead to the Coffin Butte Landfill in neighboring Benton County. But that landfill is filling up and has applied to expand its capacity. It’s also been ...

Last year, Brandi Howse’s annual mammogram returned a grim diagnosis: Stage 3 breast cancer. To save her life, she had her breasts removed, then her ovaries. She’s free of the disease now and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About an hour drive northwest of Savannah is the Candler County Landfill in Metter, Ga., where piles of dirt sit among the pines ...

Environmental stewardship requires more than protecting our own backyard. We must address the waste problem at the source — our own habits. A view of a valley in Seneca County that Seneca Meadows ...

GALENA, Kan. — A landfill controversy took center stage during last night’s Galena City Council meeting as residents weighed in. Ideas and concerns about Galena’s growing landfill issue were shared ...

I read Jim Franco’s article about the Town of Colonie landfill. For many years I have reviewed Colonie’s landfill documents at the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Region 4 ...

About an hour drive northwest of Savannah is the Candler County Landfill in Metter, Ga., where piles of dirt sit among the pines off I-121. Over the past few months, fewer and fewer trucks rumble in ...