One year after Islip marked the 25th anniversary of the infamous garbage barge that made it a national laughingstock—and all the environmental progress it’s made since—politically connected ...

He hitches a barge piled with 3,168 tons of garbage and heads down the coast to a dumping site in North Carolina. However, on arrival, two old sisters in red dresses smell the barge a-comin’ and ...

In March of that year, New York City authorities loaded a barge called the Mobro 4000 with garbage and sent it off to a methane-producing facility in North Carolina. Tar Heel State officials ...