Cleaning up from one of the largest wildfire disasters in recent history takes a while. The first phase of the cleanup around Los Angeles involved removing truckloads of hazardous household stuff, ...
In a downtown Tacoma parking lot behind a statue of a woman holding the city’s skyline in her hands sits an unusual sight. Since at least Sunday, 15 black barrels with neon-yellow toxic-waste symbols ...
In a rural pocket of western Pennsylvania, along the leafy banks of Sewickley Creek, a small, jagged pipe juts just above the waterline, its cement casing carpeted in moss. The pipe releases treated ...
Read Part I of this story here. YUKON, Pa.—When government inspectors arrived at the hazardous waste landfill here in 2023, they found themselves in a barren and alien landscape carved from western ...
Pennsylvania is still cleaning up decades’ worth of coal mining pollution. Now it must also contend with millions of tons of ...
Landfill employees in California have filed suit against their employer, alleging a decades-long practice of dumping toxic waste into waterways. According to The New Lede, 15 workers at the Clover ...
STRATFORD — The marshy wetlands where Ferry Creek empties into the Housatonic River were largely devoid of plants and animals just a few short weeks ago. The recently concluded effort by the ...
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A new recycling law signed by California Gov. Gray Davis Sept. 25 will protect the environment and public health from one of the fastest growing sources of toxic waste, according to state and national ...