{"id":448203,"date":"2026-08-30T17:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T17:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/448203\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T17:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T17:52:16","slug":"they-said-it-not-passing-the-smell-test-east-bay-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/448203\/","title":{"rendered":"They said it: Not passing the smell test \u2013 East Bay Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s horrible. It\u2019s a sour smell, like rotten eggs or spoiled food.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Milpitas resident Malgorzata Sorys, on the odor from the nearby Newby Island Sanitary Landfill. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/08\/26\/san-jose-landfill-ordered-to-reduce-air-pollution-and-odors-like-rotten-eggs-and-spoiled-food\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area Air District last week issued an abatement order for the landfill<\/a>, owned by International Disposal Corp. of California, to increase air monitoring, reduce emissions and take significant steps to reduce odors.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s horrible. It\u2019s a sour smell, like rotten eggs or spoiled food.\u201d \u2014 Milpitas resident Malgorzata Sorys, on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[4817,184,7,8,409,643,57615,11649,181,23,191,100,13,88,90,89,198,200],"class_list":["post-448203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-air-quality","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-california-news","tag-city-politics","tag-environment","tag-in-case-you-missed-it","tag-internal-affairs","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-milpitas","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-south-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}