Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Akron residents had been waiting for this Ward 5 meeting. Community members and faith leaders packed a Joy Park Community Center ...

Akron’s proposed relocation of the Waste Management (WM) waste transfer station highlights the ugly realities of environmental racism plaguing minority communities for generations. The chosen ...

Trucks hauling material to the Waste Management landfill site just outside Kettleman City, home to the largest toxic waste dump in the western U.S., in December 2009. (Reed Saxon / Associated Press) A ...

MIAMI - It's the age-old saga of not in my backyard. The Miami-Dade Commission discussed the controversial issue of where to build a new waste management site at Wednesday's meeting. In the end, after ...