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- N.C. firm to pitch pay-per-throw in Manchester (2/20/14)
MANCHESTER — A Raleigh, N.C., outfit came to Manchester this week and proclaimed there’s gold in them ‘thar hills of rubbish.
- Casella scraps plan to build pipeline from Old Town landfill to UMaine over financing (2/7/14)
ORONO, Maine — A proposed seven-mile methane gas pipeline between Juniper Ridge landfill in Old Town and the University of Maine to provide cheap, renewable heat to the campus has been scrapped over financing, according to an official with the landfill’s parent company.
- Old Townshend dump will host solar array
TOWNSHEND -- There is a new use for the old town dump. The Vermont Public Service Board has approved an application to construct a 149.5-kilowatt solar array at a former landfill off Grafton Road
- South Portland sets sights on solar power source (11/21/13)
SOUTH PORTLAND — Electrical generation in the city could have a sunny future after councilors on Monday approved spending for a study of a solar "farm" at the landfill off Highland Avenue.
- Hampden councilors want state to probe cancer cases near former landfill (10/11/13)
HAMPDEN — Town councilors unanimously agreed this week to ask the Maine Center for Disease Control to investigate what a local man believes is a higher than normal rate of cancer on a mile-long stretch of Coldbrook Road, near the former Pine Tree Landfill.
- Barney bag’ trash savings pegged at $1M (2/18/14)
The city’s “Barney bag” trash program turned 5 years old this month. And according to WasteZero — the company that coordinates and tracks Gloucester’s trash bag pickup and recycling programs — the savings are more than just environmental
- Finch’s passions at odds in landfill project (1/18/14)
BRIDGEPORT -- It's a battle of the brands and an unusual scenario for Bill Finch. The mayor with a track record of ensuring the Park City measures up to that nickname is suddenly being criticized for choosing another of his passions -- clean energy -- over preserving what some see as potential parkland.
- Coventry landfill gets permit for more garbage (11/25/13)
COVENTRY — The Coventry landfill has received an updated Vermont land-use permit that allows it to increase the amount of garbage it can accept every year
- Bridgeport flips switch on new solar plan (10/26/13)
BRIDGEPORT -- The state Public Utilities Regulatory Authority this week approved a plan for UIL Holdings, parent company for United Illuminating, to install solar panels on nine acres at the old city landfill in Seaside Park, paving the way for the latest of Mayor Bill Finch's "green" initiatives.
- Environmental Court orders closure and capping of Moretown (VT) landfill (9/17/13)
MORETOWN — Vermont’s Environmental Court has ruled that the Moretown Landfill must remain closed and be capped.