When Bill Blanchard was through speaking to officials with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, more than 100 people, many of them wearing red "Vote NO Landfill" T-shirts, stood and applauded. ...more

September 25, 2008

Opponents of a proposed landfill outside Dade City told DEP officials Tuesday night that the project would be bad for the area. ...more

September 24, 2008

Hillside Mobile Home in Zephyrhills will be connected to city water and sewer service, but residents will pay for the change. ...more

July 15, 2008

Opponents of a proposed landfill outside of Dade City want the Zephyrhills City Council to pass a resolution opposing the project. ...more

July 14, 2008

"Vote NO Landfill." That was the message on more than a dozen T-shirts at Tuesday night's Dade City City Commission meeting. Members of Protectors of Florida's Legacy came to ask commissioners for a formal resolution opposing a 90-acre landfill off Enterprise Road, a mile and a half southeast of the city limits. ...more

July 10, 2008

Dozens of people protest proposed landfill outside Dade City ...more

July 9, 2008

Opponents of a proposed landfill outside Dade City will ask the city commission tonight to formally oppose the project. ...more

July 8, 2008

SEBRING — The first asphalt plant owned and operated by a local government in Florida's history is under construction at the Highlands County Waste Management's 1,000-acre landfill. Ken Wheeler, director of the county's solid waste management department, said the plant should go into production by late June or early July. Asphalt paving costs are expected to be reduced between 10 to 20 percent at the plant, which will also add several forms of recycling to Highlands County's waste disposal system. First, methane gas, produced by garbage decomposing underground at the landfill, will no longer be burned off by flares. Instead, the gas will be used as the fuel to run the asphalt plant. ...more

June 10, 2008

For more than a year, the debate about whether to build a landfill in northeast Pasco County has been filled with familiar campaign tools: bumper stickers, petitions, residents speaking up at government meetings. ...more

February 2, 2008

If Pinellas County commissioners give it a thumbs-up, the county could start negotiations soon with a Los Angeles company to develop a major retail and office project on a former county landfill site in St. Petersburg. ...more

January 9, 2008