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 ...

Open Access Government explores the issue of water pollution and its severe implications for public health and the ...

Residents living near a hazardous waste landfill in Yukon could share in a tentative $275,000 class-action lawsuit settlement that claims their homes have been impacted by polluted dust and odors from ...

A federal judge has ruled a York County landfill is liable for pollution runoff that violates the Clean Water Act. In a Monday order, U.S. District Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania ...

An agreement has been reached between the Environmental Justice Community Action Network (EJCAN) and GFL, the owner of North Carolina’s largest landfill, addressing decades of pollution and ...

The operators of one of North Carolina’s largest landfills have for decades been shipping forever chemical-laden sludge to a majority Black community in Sampson County, a community group has alleged ...

A district judge ruled Monday in favor of environmentalists in a lawsuit against Republic Services' Modern Landfill, finding the company violated clean water regulations hundreds of times over four ...

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 ...

Middle Point Landfill should face a federal lawsuit accusing the owners of causing odor and water pollution, Murfreesboro officials decided Wednesday. Middle Point is located near Murfreesboro's ...

Protesters demand the closure of Chiquita Canyon Landfill during a demonstration at Hasley Canyon Park in Castaic on Feb. 22. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Federal regulators say it's an ...