Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. landfills containing municipal solid waste are releasing certain kinds of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances into the air in ...

A landfill in a small Central Florida town is building a new rail line in preparation to receive 250,000 tons of solid waste from Miami-Dade County per year through at least 2035.

The guidance, now updated once a year, maintains that landfills are likely emitting more PFAS than previously thought. Newer ...

The controversial proposal for a deep injection well at a Sumter County landfill remains in the headlines. This is good.

House Bill 566-FN (“566”) has been introduced into the 2025 New Hampshire legislative Session addressing landfill leachate. 566 would require permit applications for new landfills in the state to ...

A Penn Township environmental organization is opposing a draft permit the state has issued to a Rostraver landfill operator that wants to pipe treated leachate from its garbage dump into the ...

Geophysical techniques, particularly non-invasive imaging methods, have emerged as essential tools for characterising landfill structures and monitoring leachate migration. These methods, including ...

The Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill in Rostraver Township, Pa. accepts fracking waste. A study by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection found the liquid runoff from Pennsylvania ...

Researchers have created a new two-layer membrane filtration system that can significantly reduce the amount of micro and nanoplastics that leak from landfills into local water basins. (Nanowerk News) ...

The Lyon County landfill is looking at ways to cut down on the amount of “forever chemicals” in landfill runoff – but it’s a ...