Black smoke rises from a fire at Rumpke Waste & Recycling on Sept. 14, 2025. Rumpke Waste & Recycling has replaced a portion of the liner beneath the Colerain Township landfill following a fire last ...

It's leachate - a smelly fluid composed of old garbage and rainwater - and it could be leaking from as many as 58 landfills across the state, according to David Finley, administrator for the Wyoming ...

An oil and gas industry group on Monday withdrew its objection to a rule that requires drilling pad pit liners to be disposed in certified landfill sites. The industry will instead shift its focus to ...

The West Garfield County landfill in Rifle has ceased accepting the liners for various kinds of holding pits from gas well sites around the county. New state regulations requiring gas well operators ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Construction on a new portion of the City of Springfield’s landfill has started and the new portion contains a special liner system KOLR 10’s Madison Hever went out to see the liner ...

State regulators are reconsidering a new rule requiring fluid pit liners related to oil and gas development to be taken to landfills rather than being buried on site. Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation ...

A tour of the Carleton Farms Landfill helped convince several Wayne County Commissioners to support a thinner landfill liner as part of a $53-million expansion at the site. Commissioners in a Public ...

LOGAN, Mont. — Crews were back to work Tuesday, after Monday's rain put a temporary pause on laying down the plastic liner system at the Logan Landfill's new 10-acre expansion. The landfill's manager ...

Question: What practices occur at our local waste facilities to prevent contamination of water sources (drinking and otherwise)? Answer: Waste facilities are broken down into classes with specific ...

The public anxiety over entombing coal ash in Lee and Chatham counties comes down to this: a sheet of plastic that’s no thicker than two credit cards stuck together. That’s the thickness of the ...