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State lawmakers included $26.5 million in their two-year budget proposal to help the city of Bristol clean up its landfill.

It's an idea now under consideration in Hampton Roads, where Norfolk is considering a proposal to install 35 acres of solar panels on a former landfill.

A proposal to build a large-scale landfill near the headwaters of the Clinch River was defeated Monday evening.

The Puente Hills Landfill received waste from all over Los Angeles County for more than 50 years, and eventually grew higher than 500 feet. But with the site's closure, the trash won't just disappear.

By October, the state will have the most ambitious commercial food waste ban in the U.S. Institutions that produce more than a ton of waste a week will have to find new uses for their scraps.

With Christmas over, some 35 million holiday trees will be coming down. Where do they go? Bill Ulfelder of the Nature Conservancy in New York has suggestions of how to avoid sending them to landfills.

By law, Virginia’s largest electric utility must stop emitting carbon by 2045, so Dominion is expanding its solar production. One challenge – finding places to put more solar panels.

Landfills are among the nation's largest sources of methane, a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide. But accurately measuring methane is a major challenge to reducing it.

Wreckage believed to be from the 2011 Japanese tsunami is washing up thousands of miles away in Alaska. The debris isn't just unsightly — it poses environmental worries for the landscape and animals. One conservationist says the problem may be worse than the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

A group of residents in Russell County is fighting a proposal to build a private landfill on a former coal site. The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) has now joined them in opposing the landfill.