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This tiny Pennsylvania community was deemed ‘expendable.’ So toxic waste keeps flowing

Fast Company Tech

YUKON, Pa.When government inspectors arrived at the hazardous waste landfill here in 2023, they found themselves in a barren and alien landscape carved from western Pennsylvanias green countryside. RCRA is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, which regulates hazardous waste. Read Part I of this story here.

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This Pennsylvania landfill sends radioactive waste into a nearby creek—and fracking has only made it worse

Fast Company Tech

In a rural pocket of western Pennsylvania, along the leafy banks of Sewickley Creek, a small, jagged pipe juts just above the waterline, its cement casing carpeted in moss. Colleen ONeil of the Mountain Watershed Association fixes a crooked sign posted near a landfills discharge pipe that flows into Sewickley Creek in Yukon, Pennsylvania.