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Forty years after Warren County, N.C., residents marched to a landfill to try to stop dump trucks, the EPA is creating a new office charged with advancing environmental justice.

After nearly 30 years, the New Mexico landfill that famously was used to bury the game console maker's mistakes — the biggest being the game E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial — will be dug up by game developer Fuel Industries, which hopes to make a documentary about the project.

Even amid rising grocery prices and increased sensitivity to environmental issues, Americans still trash once-edible food at alarming rates.

While wind energy is marketed as the future's green energy solution, turbines last only about 20 years, and disposing of their behemoth fiberglass blades is both complicated and costly.

Desmond D'Sa fought a landfill that took over a beautiful valley and sickened residents with its awful smell. He lost his job but won the battle — and the Goldman Environmental Prize.

Vince Thomas is launching a program for his goats to help recycle holiday trees. Thomas says he got tired of people discarding trees in landfills or in the desert, where they become fire hazards.

A state tax credit for purchasing equipment to process recyclable materials is set to expire at the end of this year. But since recycling produces many…

NPR's Nina Totenberg reports on today's Supreme Court decision limiting the scope of the federal Clean Water Act. The court split along its familiar ideological lines, 5-4, in ruling that the Army Corps of Engineers can't use the law to forbid the building of a landfill in a migratory bird habitat. The area, near Chicago, contains abandoned gravel pits that flood with water and attract birds for nesting and breeding. The court majority ruled that Congress intended the Clean Water Act to apply to large or navigable bodies of water.

over Ellis Island... where some 16-million immigrants entered the U.S. The small island was signed over to New York in 1834, but the island was expanded with landfills into New Jersey waters. Now, New Jersey want a piece of the revenue generated by tourists visiting Ellis Island. Starting today, a special master appointed by the U.S. Supreme Court will hold hearings to resolve the dispute.

Kerry Donahue from member station WBGO in Newark, New Jersey reports on the latest garbage skirmish between New York and New Jersey. On Staten Island, the Fresh Kills landfill will be closed by the end of next year and is the world's largest dump. After the Fresh Kills closure, 13-thousand tons of New York City garbage will pass through New Jersey every day by rail. And some New Jersey residents aren't happy about it.