For years, residents of Grove City, Pennsylvania, have fought to stop a decades-old landfill from resuming operations in their town. They were worried the landfill would make legacy pollution in the area worse.

But in 2022, information about the kind of waste the landfill would accept raised new fears.

“We realized we didn’t only have a trash problem, but we had a radiation problem,” said Beverly Graham, who lives about three miles from the landfill site and is the recording secretary for the Citizens’ Environmental Association of the Slippery Rock Area, or CEASRA, the local environmental group at the forefront of the battle against the landfill.

The group had found a map of landfills that accept oil and gas waste in Pennsylvania, published by investigative journalists at the Public Her

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