The small town Plympton, Massachusetts, eliminated 305 tons of garbage a year by making everyone pay for what they toss.

Some Newton County neighbors are speaking out about a nearby landfill that they say is releasing a foul odor. “You ever been ...

Hawley seized on Wagner’s comments and criticized her on social media Thursday night. ... Wagner’s office has worked in the past on radiation-related issues, including the Westlake Landfill in ...

The agency plans to expedite the process of cleaning up toxic waste sites, even as Trump aims to slash its budget and staff.

Fewer teens are also citing social media as a support system than did in 2022. I don’t want to make it sound like it’s a total hellscape: A majority of teens say that social media lets them ...

The landfill’s owner, Republic Services, said in an emailed statement that “there is no evidence whatsoever of radiologically impacted material … in Bridgeton Landfill.” ...

In 1973, that waste ended up in an unlined landfill in Bridgeton, Missouri, a St. Louis suburb. ... The coalition blasted social media with the health agency’s conclusions.

The landfill in north St. Louis holds 300,000 cubic yards of radioactive waste, left over from the nuclear weapons program. Credit: Ashford Kellen for the EPA Sandwiched between the Missouri River and ...

The nuclear waste was originally stored at the St Louis-Lambert International Airport but later moved and illegally dumped at the West Lake landfill in Bridgeton in 1973.

The landfill has been a source of concern for well over a decade for multiple reasons. Weapons-grade uranium refined in St. Louis as part of the Manhattan Project, the World War II-era program ...

The media reported that a letter from federal authorities outlined that the landfill accepted radionuclides and other radioactive waste from a landfill in Missouri. The Illinois EPA received a ...