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Appalachian Power has a plan to move tons of coal ash from its closed generating plant at Glen Lyn in Giles County to a new landfill the company would build nearby in West Virginia.The coal ash, which contains arsenic, lead and mercury among many other pollutants, is currently stored in ponds on the Virginia side of the state line next to the New River. Before anything can be done APCO will have to get approval from the Virginia State Corporation Commission.Cardinal News business reporter Matt Busse is covering this issue and he spoke with Fred Echols.

It's almost as tall as the Taj Mahal. It smolders and festers. And it's a source of income for slum dwellers nearby.

Communities in the state of Maryland send more trash to Virginia landfills than any other state, and one large county may soon be adding to the flow of garbage – sending 600,000 tons of waste each year to (counties). People who live near the county’s incinerator like that idea, but opposition is growing as environmentalists make the case for keeping and burning local waste.Sandy Hausman has that story.

Jody Becker of Chicago Public Radio reports on reaction in Illinois to the Supreme Court's decision to overturn use of the federal Clean Water Act to stop construction of a landfill on ponds used by migratory birds.

More recycling isn't always good for the environment. Now that China is buying less recyclables, cities are shoving their water bottles and cardboard boxes into the trash pile. And it might be OK.

Lebanon's stylish capital is looking shabby. Mounds of stinking garbage are piled in Beirut's streets, byproducts of an ongoing political crisis that has paralyzed the government. Angry locals have staged a sit-in outside an overflowing landfill, and waste disposal has ground to a halt. The protesters — and the trash — could be there awhile.

Residents of some suburbs complain their lives are being ruined by the giant garbage dumps that ring the city. With no recycling in the capital, all trash goes into the expanding landfills.

California now requires households and businesses to compost food waste. Diverting food waste from landfills will lessen the release of methane, a major greenhouse gas.

Food waste is a big problem — for public health, the environment and consumers. Chefs and restaurant owners seem like they'd be the least likely to waste food, and yet 15 percent of all the food that ends up in landfills comes from restaurants. Some restaurants are starting to take action.

Jody Becker of Chicago Public Radio reports on a thorny environmental case being heard next month by the U.S. Supreme Court. It involves the right of some Chicago suburbs to build a landfill on land that's being used by migratory birds. Some environmental activists warn that the court could use the case to gut the landmark Clean Water Act.