This year marks the beginning of the end for Brookhaven Landfill. That is what spurred discussion among industry groups and environmental advocates at an environmental symposium on Wednesday, March 13 ...

By the end of 2024, the Brookhaven Landfill will stop accepting thousands of tons of construction and demolition debris. This is the majority of waste that is dumped at the Yaphank-based facility — ...

Three miles from the Brookhaven landfill sits the state's only auto shredder south of Albany. Crushing cars and appliances at the rate of one every eight seconds, Gershow Recycling's vast Medford ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An enormous landfill on Long Island is scheduled to close in two years, but Brookhaven residents who live nearby are anxious and ...

A state environmental official ordered Brookhaven Town to rewrite a draft report suggesting the town landfill may not be the source of plumes containing higher-than-normal levels of highly toxic ...

Brookhaven residents are frustrated after a town meeting to discuss corrective measures for the Brookhaven Landfill and the contamination plume spreading underground. The town of Brookhaven and the ...

Residents gathered outside Brookhaven Town Hall on Thursday to call for the Brookhaven Landfill to be fully closed and cleaned up, citing concerns about groundwater contamination and potential public ...

The more than 270-foot Brookhaven landfill caught fire Wednesday, and it could be in part because of the weather. Adrienne Esposito, with Citizens Campaign for the Environment, said “Unfortunately, we ...

An enormous landfill on Long Island is scheduled to close in two years, but Brookhaven residents who live nearby are anxious and worried about the underwater toxic plume the landfill created. The ...