Because the city of Hamilton owned what started as a private landfill in the 1940s, it’s on the hook for part of the remediation efforts, which could cost upwards of $400,000. Pending City Council ...

Landfills are a major problem for the climate: They’re the United States’ third-largest source of methane, a greenhouse gas that traps 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide in the short term. Last ...

Landfill owner Republic Services won't comply with two of the actions DEQ has asked it to take to address serious methane ...

A mountain of rotting food, discarded clothing and cardboard boxes pile up as trucks line up the hill to dump more waste. Birds swirl in flocks above, waiting for the cranes and dump trucks to clear ...

Brimming with wildlife and offering panoramic views of San Francisco Bay, César Chávez Park welcomes visitors who might never suspect this stretch of shoreline was built atop a municipal landfill. But ...

The Loess Hills Regional Sanitary Landfill is one of a handful of landfills in Iowa that converts landfill gas into renewable natural gas. (Photo courtesy of Bret Stephens/Loess Hills Landfill) When ...

More than a decade ago, the Mesa County Landfill voluntarily began capturing and burning off the methane generated by the organic waste disposed of there. Now, county officials are watching with ...

Health Care Providers Are Dropping a Common Anesthesia Drug That’s Also a Climate Super Pollutant Ten Million Corals Are in the Path of a Federal Dredging Project in Florida To Save An Endangered ...

Esther Salazar, Carmen Molina, and Marco Velasquez work to classify donated food at Banco de Alimentos Quito. (Credit: The Global FoodBanking Network/Ana María Buitron) Ignacion Mendez, a volunteer, ...

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