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 ...

More than a year before it is scheduled to start closing, the Brookhaven landfill is taking in less trash from construction sites and leaving town officials with a potential $4 million hole in the ...

Town of Brookhaven leaders had a choice. After a whistleblower alleged the waste incinerator where he worked had sent hazardous ash to the town landfill — potentially polluting air and water in ...

The NAACP, environmentalists and community groups want New York Attorney General Letita James to launch an independent investigation of waste company Covanta dumping toxic ash into the Brookhaven ...

Hannah Thomas, of North Bellport, NY, joins an Earth Day rally on Saturday, April 22, 2023, to call for the immediate closure and cleanup of the Brookhaven Landfill. Officials are now considering ...

The crisis is coming for us with the certainty and strength of a hurricane. The solid waste crisis. While the Town of Brookhaven is at its epicenter, it will affect every Suffolk County township ...

As the Brookhaven landfill approaches its closure, New York City and Long Island face a looming crisis: an impending surge in truck traffic, which threatens to exacerbate already severe congestion and ...

Danielle Leigh reports on the landfill concerns at one school in Brookhaven, Long Island. BROOKHAVEN, Long Island (WABC) -- It was a cold, snow-capped morning in January and Theresa Palermo, a retired ...