New York fracktivists have for years pushed officials to ban state landfills from taking out-of-state fracking waste. The state hasn’t acted, even though the Department of Environmental Conservation decided not to allow high-volume fracking in New York. But the other night, the Albany County Legislature voted to ban landfills in the county from accepting the […]
Landfills
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Trash talk
In five years, Monroe County’s Mill Seat landfill, which takes waste from the county and the City of Rochester, could be full. But county officials want the Riga landfill to last another 25 years, so they’ve applied to the Department of Environmental Conservation for permission to add 118 acres to the current 95-acre landfill. County […]
