dumps

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Also included are the sites of underground gas storage facilities, refineries, fuel terminals, legacy pollution sites, active industrial sites, landfills, dumps and recycling centers.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

Welcome to this weekend’s edition of the Surge, a politics newsletter that, in light of the hantavirus outbreak, sadly will be canceling all of our future vacations to rat-infested garbage dumps.

From Slate • May 9, 2026

The Environment Agency, which is responsible for dealing with the largest and most hazardous waste dumps, said it dealt with 98 incidents last year.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026

Consumers—long the engine of the U.S. economy—feel solidly in the dumps.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

Their mounts subsisted on the tough brown devilgrass that grew in dumps at the base of rocks and dead trees.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin