Beneath layers of waste, landfills around the US have been reaching scorching temperatures, spewing toxic gases and geysers ...

The Toxic Waste Pit Next Door Nearly 100 years after the Army buried chemical weapons in DC’s Spring Valley, it’s still finding bombs and lethal chemicals under the homes there. Some residents fear ...

The waste from Rocky Flats was packaged in storage drums and boxes before being sent from 1954 to 1970 to the high-desert, sagebrush steppe of eastern Idaho where it was buried in unlined pits and ...

The waste from Rocky Flats was packaged in storage drums and boxes before being sent from 1954 to 1970 to the high-desert, sagebrush steppe of eastern Idaho where it was buried in unlined pits and ...

U.S. officials say they have almost completed a lengthy project to dig up and remove radioactive and hazardous waste buried for decades in unlined pits at an eastern Idaho nuclear facility that ...

Connecticut’s last major operational landfill sits on high ground overlooking the Quinebaug River in Putnam, where more than 575,000 tons of ash a year from trash-to-energy plants has built a… ...

The operators of the Big Sky Landfill near Birmingham agreed to pay a civil fine of $138,800 to the Alabama Department of Environmental Management and submit a plan to resolve the waste violations.

The clay- or geofabric-lined pits hold everything that goes down the hole and comes back up during drilling. That’s somewhere in the range of 650 tons of solid waste and 200 barrels of liquid ...

The world's largest chocolate bar is buried there. A famous Nestlé Crunch Bar or Hershey bar – it depends on which Rumpke family member you ask, Yeager says – is buried in the landfill.

The waste from Rocky Flats was packaged in storage drums and boxes before being sent from 1954 to 1970 to the high-desert, sagebrush steppe of eastern Idaho where it was buried in unlined pits and ...

The waste from Rocky Flats was packaged in storage drums and boxes before being sent from 1954 to 1970 to the high-desert, sagebrush steppe of eastern Idaho where it was buried in unlined pits and ...

U.S. officials say they have almost completed a lengthy project to dig up and remove radioactive and hazardous waste buried for decades in unlined pits at an eastern Idaho nuclear facility that ...