Dive summary:

• A group of residents near the Sunshine Canyon Landfill in Los Angeles are filing a class action lawsuit against the landfill saying the continuous stench of the landfill has made their lives, as one resident put it, a slowly progressing hell.
• The lawsuit asks that either the landfill reduce operations or compensate neighbors for damages.
• In the past two years the Sunshine Canyon Landfill has had 55-odor violations as well as a fine of nearly $500,000 last summer.

From the article:

At Van Gogh Street Elementary School, children complain too. AQMD has installed a monitoring station. While the air may stink, it is not toxic, says AQMD.

As for remediation, the company has installed more pipes to draw out methane gas and burn it before it blows into neighborhoods.

"We are seeing a significant increase, about a 67 percent increase, in the amount of landfill gas that they are collecting this year versus last year," said Atwood. "So we know that the trend is in the right direction."

Ask neighbors though, and they say the smell has only gotten worse. ...