By Walt Hickey
Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition.
This week, I spoke to Rachael Dottle, a data journalist at Bloomberg News about her story Warning Signs Are Flashing at America’s Overheating Landfills.
I have been a longtime fan of Rachael since she and I were colleagues at FiveThirtyEight, and she worked through reams of documents and data to get to this story. Rachael and I talk about some of the regulations and complicated science that goes into maintaining landfills, as well as a few instances where the lack thereof has created really bad situations. Those bad situations are especially vivid given what we’re talking about, including the sentence “geysers of leachate” which I didn’t really understand was a possibility in the past.
You can read Rachael’s story at Bloomberg News.
This interview has been condensed and edited.
Rachael, thank you so much for coming back on.
Of course, a joy to be here.
You are on the data vis desk at Bloomberg News. You do some really phenomenal stuff. I…