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 ...

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 ...

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. This article originally appeared on ...

A bill to be discussed Thursday in the New Jersey Legislature would require all such materials used in the state to be recyclable or compostable by 2034. Paper packaging materials sit inside a ...

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 ...

In the latest skirmish between state regulators and citizen activists, the NH Department of Environmental Services issued a modified air emissions permit for the Turnkey III landfill in Rochester on ...

Landfills across America are releasing far more methane, a potent planet-warming gas, than we previously thought. A study published in the journal Science found that our nation's dumps are releasing ...

A Yakima County Superior Court judge said she could not take action on a request to halt operations at the Caton Landfill north of Naches until the state Pollution Control Hearings Board considers the ...

ROCHESTER − In the latest skirmish between state regulators and citizen activists, the NH Department of Environmental Services issued a modified air emissions permit for the Turnkey III landfill in ...