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 ...

Opinion: California’s landfill methane compliance playbook is about to change, with more regulations that would push ...

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 ...

Republic Services has not previously submitted a quarterly preventative maintenance form for the flare at Coffin Butte Landfill to the Department of Environmental Quality. Republic ...

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 ...

Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, CO2 Foundation, Jim ...

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 ...

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 ...