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

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 ...

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 ...

GALENA, Kan. — A landfill controversy took center stage during last night’s Galena City Council meeting as residents weighed in. Ideas and concerns about Galena’s growing landfill issue were shared ...

Environmental stewardship requires more than protecting our own backyard. We must address the waste problem at the source — our own habits. A view of a valley in Seneca County that Seneca Meadows ...

The soft, absorbent boom that has played the biggest role in containing the spill alone would measure more than twice the length of California's coastline, or about 2,000 miles. More than 50,000 tons ...

Excerpts from The News Journal archives from Jan. 11-17 include firefighters dying in a crash on the way to a fire in 1926. New Castle County plans to move entire landfill in 1976 because of water ...