A photo taken by the Department of Environmental Services during a June 4 site visit shows the Bethlehem landfill. (Screenshot from DES report) In early June, officials from the Department of ...

Greg Johnson PFAS are known as “forever chemicals” because of their persistence in the environment. The U.S. EPA is actively ...

“Landfill leachate contaminated with PFAS has become an increasingly concerning national problem with limited disposal options. Our AirSCWO system offers a breakthrough solution — destroying toxic ...

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 ...

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 ...

UBC Okanagan researchers have created a new two-layer membrane filtration system that can significantly reduce the amount of ...

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 ...

Litter in and around the landfill. Waste outside of the permitted area. Releases of liquid pollution. Failure to file mandatory reports. These are some of the issues found at four of the state’s ...

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 ...