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As recently as May 12 of this year, Monroe "Monty" Branstad, was fined $17,000 for violating Iowa's environmental laws from an August 2008 incident that illegally discharged sweet corn silage leachate from a containment basin on Branstad's 1,100 head cattle operation near Forest City, Iowa.

Dave Murphy: Iowa Governor 2010: Who Will Be the Worst Environmental Governor of the 21st Century? Dave Murphy 2010

As recently as May 12 of this year, Monroe "Monty" Branstad, was fined $17,000 for violating Iowa's environmental laws from an August 2008 incident that illegally discharged sweet corn silage leachate from a containment basin on Branstad's 1,100 head cattle operation near Forest City, Iowa.

Dave Murphy: Iowa Governor 2010: Who Will Be the Worst Environmental Governor of the 21st Century? Dave Murphy 2010

As recently as May 12 of this year, Monroe "Monty" Branstad, was fined $17,000 for violating Iowa's environmental laws from an August 2008 incident that illegally discharged sweet corn silage leachate from a containment basin on Branstad's 1,100 head cattle operation near Forest City, Iowa.

Dave Murphy: Iowa Governor 2010: Who Will Be the Worst Environmental Governor of the 21st Century? Dave Murphy 2010

As recently as May 12 of this year, Monroe "Monty" Branstad, was fined $17,000 for violating Iowa's environmental laws from an August 2008 incident that illegally discharged sweet corn silage leachate from a containment basin on Branstad's 1,100 head cattle operation near Forest City, Iowa.

Dave Murphy: Iowa Governor 2010: Who Will Be the Worst Environmental Governor of the 21st Century? Dave Murphy 2010

As recently as May 12 of this year, Monroe "Monty" Branstad, was fined $17,000 for violating Iowa's environmental laws from an August 2008 incident that illegally discharged sweet corn silage leachate from a containment basin on Branstad's 1,100 head cattle operation near Forest City, Iowa.

Dave Murphy: Iowa Governor 2010: Who Will Be the Worst Environmental Governor of the 21st Century? Dave Murphy 2010

According to the authors, "The study presents extensive data that show that heavy metal concentrations in leachate and landfill gas are generally far below the limits that have been established to protect human health and the environment."

The ultimate in fatuity? Richard 2006

This gloop, known as leachate, might have contained any number of hazardous chemicals, especially in an era when few people thought much about what they tossed.

Landfills are safer than dumps, but trash must travel farther to reach them 2011

These liners and a subterranean piping system collect the leachate, which is then hauled to sewage treatment plants.

Landfills are safer than dumps, but trash must travel farther to reach them 2011

This gloop, known as leachate, might have contained any number of hazardous chemicals, especially in an era when few people thought much about what they tossed.

Landfills are safer than dumps, but trash must travel farther to reach them 2011

While the city has great hopes for the land, which it plans to build in phases over the next 30 years among them as a destination for mountain-biking, trail-running, and horseback-riding, the mounds that comprise the park are so far dotted not with fountains, such as the Bethesda Fountain, but with well-heads to collect the decomposing gases, and treatment plants where something called leachate is rendered harmless and released into Arthur Kill .

No Dumping on Fresh Kills Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

The government banned burying organic waste in landfills in 2005, followed by another ban against dumping leachate – the putrid liquid squeezed from solid food waste – into the ocean in 2013.

South Korea has almost zero food waste. Here’s what the US can learn Max S Kim 2022