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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

ST. PAULS — The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) recently sent Robeson County a letter of intent to file suit against the county for violations of the Clean Water Act and Resource Conservation ...

A Penn Township environmental organization is opposing a draft permit the state has issued to a Rostraver landfill operator that wants to pipe treated leachate from its garbage dump into the ...

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 ...