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Waste Management of Illinois is looking to build a 31,000-square-foot transfer facility and a 3,500-square-foot recycling ...

Collier County commissioners approved an eastward landfill expansion, adding 183 acres and extending its life by 80 years.

Archaeologists have uncovered six previously unknown Bronze Age mines in southwestern Spain, offering a striking new clue about where the metal in ancient Scandinavian artifacts may have come from.

Work is under way to rid a town of an "eggy" smell which has been traced to a nearby landfill site. The smell has been affecting residents in Calne, Wiltshire, for more than a year with reports of it ...

The hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship may have begun with a couple's birdwatching trip to a landfill site before they both later died. Two officials investigating the deadly viral ...

New Jersey is home to nearly 9 percent of the nation’s Superfund sites—more than any other state. They range from chemical plants with toxic byproducts leached into the soil, to oil-filled lagoons, ...

Changing conditions at the site of a coal mine fire in Colorado have prompted state officials to begin an emergency project to mitigate wildfire risk in the area. The Black Diamond Mine in Rio Blanco ...

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The company that is in contract to buy a toxic dump in Keyport, home to grave concerns about a possible cancer cluster nearby, has just been approved for a permit to start environmental testing, ...

The Similkameen River near Princeton, B.C., about 30 kilometres downstream from where Barrick Gold Inc. was penalized for repeatedly sending mine waste into a tributary. Nalidsa ...

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