A Rostraver landfill operator’s plans to heat and evaporate 45,000 gallons of liquid runoff at the Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill will be discussed at two public hearings being held by state ...

The Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill accepts solid fracking waste. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection held two public hearings last week about a plan by a Westmoreland County ...

The state Department of Environmental Protection this week approved an air quality plan to allow an onsite leachate treatment and evaporation system to be installed at Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill ...

WESTMORELAND COUNTY, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Services held the first of two public hearings tonight at the Rostraver Fire Department and got an earful from concerned ...

As leachate is loaded into an evaporator unit, it is heated to a temperature less than boiling, and is not pressurized, so there would be no danger of an explosion, company officials have explained.

Jackson County Commissioners have approved a three-month extension of a development agreement that allows Waste Management to install one evaporator now as a means of vaporizing the company’s ...