After Fighting Back a Landfill Expansion, Houston Residents Await EPA Consideration of Stricter Methane Regulations

By Keaton Peters

When the Hawthorne Park Landfill opened in 1977, it transformed everyday life for residents of Carverdale, a historically Black neighborhood in northwest Houston. Myra Jefferson has seen pests and roaches from the dump multiply over the decades and remembers yellow dust from the rot sticking to everything.