Steam rises from the top of towering piles of compost at a landfill in western Placer County, California. The jaws of an excavator rake up and churn the heaps, unleashing a stench of decomposing food.

The Placer County Board of Supervisors voted yesterday to approve the ... In approving the plan, the county supervisors agreed to decrease the existing buffer zone around a landfill that’s in the ...

a contract for the construction and operation of its 320-acre waste management complex to process solid waste in Placer County, California. FCC will retrofit WPWMA’s current facilities to become a ...

The center is a joint endeavor among Sac State, Sierra College, Placer County, and Roseville-based developer Taylor ... with Western Placer Waste Management Authority, which operates a landfill less ...