The West Garfield County landfill in Rifle has ceased accepting the liners for various kinds of holding pits from gas well sites around the county. New state regulations requiring gas well operators ...

In an oil and gas company’s efforts to keep them out of landfills, liners that the state now requires to be removed when drilling pits are closed are being recycled as plastics and also used to fire ...

GLENWOOD SPRINGS – Now that the state has decided to stick to rules requiring disposal of “pit liners” used to contain holding ponds next to gas drilling pads, Garfield County is trying to figure out ...

RIFLE, Colo. – Garfield County and the state’s gas and oil overseers are deep in talks about what to do with huge rubbery sheets covered with sludge, some of it apparently toxic, that are a byproduct ...