It's not known what caused the chemical reaction, but federal officials say the burn zone has grown underground to at least 35 acres.

For years, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers insisted that extending the landfill was the best option. But after a lengthy ...

When Meg Volk and her husband Ron moved to Granada Hills with their infant son in 1991, Sunshine Canyon Landfill in Sylmar ...

As production of natural gas soared, so has the fracking industry’s production of toxic and often radioactive waste.

The mostly South County district will vote on who should fill the vacancy left by the resignation of former board Chair Nora ...

For the past 2–3 weeks palls of toxic smoke, billowing from the Matuail landfill, have been spreading over a large part of southern Dhaka, choking the residents of many neighbourhoods, including ...

On some days it was so bad, he would drive out of town to escape it. During an EPA-led community session about the landfill in October, Zafaras talked about the chemical smell he had noticed on ...