A Penn Township environmental organization is opposing a draft permit the state has issued to a Rostraver landfill operator ...

Leachate is a catchall term for liquid that seeps from solid waste disposal sites. It is created as water — like rain or snow melt — percolates through landfills, picking up harmful chemicals ...

The Utah Inland Port Authority has purchased an old Salt Lake City landfill and has promised to clean up the toxic site.

FOSTORIA, Ohio — An estimated 5,000 to "tens of thousands of gallons" of leachate — water that is contaminated by running through trash at a landfill — spilled on Monday at a landfill ...

When North Country advocate Wayne Morrison became involved in waste issues years ago, he thought about the immediate, visible impacts of a landfill: the “mountain of trash,” the noise, the ...

House Bill 566-FN (“566”) has been introduced into the 2025 New Hampshire legislative Session addressing landfill leachate. 566 ...

Instead of imposing a setback distance, bipartisan House Bill 707, focuses on the time it would take for leachate — a toxic mix of liquid from landfills — to reach nearby groundwater ...

Failures at several landfills around the state to properly manage leachate – including one in the small, northern town of Bethlehem that racked up hundreds of violations within a year – have ...

What wasn’t on his mind was what he described as an invisible danger: leachate, or the so-called “trash juice” created when rain and snow mix with waste. It’s a “cocktail of heavy metals, toxins, (and ...