A coffee cup tossed in the trash will either be reduced to ash in a giant fire or spend its days buried underground. So which one is it? The answer depends on where it was tossed. But assuming it ...

A growing share of Twin Cities trash is piling up in landfills, despite a yearslong state effort to steer the region away from burying garbage. Local landfills now want permission to expand capacity ...

An official with the Philadelphia area’s top industrial air polluter is accusing me of spreading false information when a Reading Eagle reporter accurately quoted me recently (“Waste-to-energy plant ...