Our community partners are distributing this brochure to inform more residents about the harmful gases leaking from a landfill in Virginia.
Category: Waste
New Orleans has a trash problem. Climate change means other cities will too.
Some neighborhoods went without sanitation services for over a month after Hurricane Ida.
Air pollution from a Virginia landfill is making residents sick. Officials won’t call it an emergency.
A chemical reaction taking place below the landfill’s surface is emitting harmful gases.
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