Special Report: Landfills

Using a nearly $400,000 grant from the City of Denton, Texas, civil engineers at The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) have created a plan to use moisture to speed up methane gas production at the city’s landfill...

Following a flood of complaints from neighboring cities about an increased odor issue at the Capitol Landfill in Juneau, Alaska, the City and Borough of Juneau has identified the source and measures are being taken to reduce the odor issues...

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark,” says Marcellus to Horatio. Hamlet, Act I, Scene 4. We learned earlier in the play that the Danish court has been festering with moral and political corruption since the death of Hamlet...

Faced with dwindling capacity, landfill operations across the U.S. have mounted successful efforts to expand their sites...

Peter Anderson says he wants to do triage on greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, but in his rambling haste to perform surgery on landfills he offers an inaccurate diagnosis. So let’s perform an actual triage. The waste and recycling i...

Wyoming counties struggling to mitigate land contamination are getting help from the state, which has earmarked more than $65 million to help local governments mitigate leaks and construct new transfer stations...

Casella Waste Systems Inc. and Aria Energy are partnering to establish a landfill gas-to-energy (LFGTE) operation at the Juniper Ridge Landfill that Casella operates in Old Town, Maine...