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The Trump administration’s annual budget contains a record $1.5 trillion dollars for defense, an increase of 44%, while cutting support for the EPA in half. Here in Virginia, individuals and groups are still working to improve the environment and create sustainable ways of doing things. UVA will present Sustainability Leadership Awards to 15 of them.

Julie Bargmann, the first recipient of the Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize, redesigns waste dumps, landfills, Superfund sites — places she calls "the gnarliest."

Badin, North Carolina, was a company town until Alcoa closed its aluminum spelting plant after more than 90 years of operation.

A land reclamation project that uses vast amounts of garbage extends hundreds of feet into the sea. "We are fishing plastic," says a fisherman. The country has long struggled to manage its waste.

Americans may think they donate all of their used clothes, but only 15 percent of textiles are reused. That means a lot of fabric ends up in landfills.

Too Good To Go works with businesses to sell leftovers at a reduced price. This helps prevent food waste from ending up in landfills, where it decomposes and produces a potent planet-warming gas.

A school composting program in Los Angeles helps teach students how to take climate action through its composting program.

Virginia is about to receive $100 million to capture methane emissions.But environmental groups are not sold on the idea for what happens next.

Cities are finding beneficial and lucrative ways to dispose of solid waste, while also helping farmers. But a lot of sewage still ends up in landfills or being processed at big, industrial incinerators.

The U.S. wastes 133 billion pounds of food annually. Cutting that by 50 percent by 2020 is going to take a serious action plan. A new data-driven report ranks approaches that could get the job done.