Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A photo taken by the Department of Environmental Services during a June 4 site visit shows the Bethlehem landfill. (Screenshot ...

David Kempisty   Each week, millions of Americans roll their bins to the curb and never think twice about what comes next.

Bethlehem Landfill Co. is continuing to address a notice of violation issued by state environmental regulators in February over odors from decomposing trash. A representative of the Pennsylvania ...

Greg Johnson PFAS are known as “forever chemicals” because of their persistence in the environment. The U.S. EPA is actively ...

Polk County had a $2.5 million problem at its landfill. At issue was the cost and treatment of leachate (LEE-chayt) — the liquid that filters to the bottom of the landfill at tens of thousands of ...

The Keystone Sanitary Landfill violated state regulations by regularly storing too much leachate since October, according to the state Department of Environmental Protection. The DEP sent a notice of ...

Two days later, DES sent a letter of deficiency to the landfill that laid out how it had failed hundreds of times to keep leachate to its required levels and to file mandatory reports, data, and ...

In early June, officials from the Department of Environmental Services made an unannounced visit to the landfill in Bethlehem, a small, northern New Hampshire town near the Vermont border. They came ...