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 ...

Steel drums of hazardous waste were found at a roadside turnout at Monterey Road near Paso Robles on Dec. 18, 2024. Four of the barrels contained benzene, a substance SLO County Public Works said is ...

Thousands of barrels filled with hazardous chemicals at a disposal site in rural Bullitt County represented what was at the time considered by federal officials as one of the worst illegal dumps in ...

A few years ago, the news hit screens that there was an enormous toxic waste dumping ground in the waters off the coast of Los Angeles. Hundreds of thousands of ...

For decades, a graveyard of corroding barrels has littered the seafloor just off the coast of Los Angeles. It was out of sight, out of mind — a not-so-secret secret that haunted the marine environment ...

The caustic waste that leaked from the barrels created an extreme environment similar to that of hydrothermal vents, colonized by specialized bacteria that thrive in such harsh conditions. Reading ...

Fresh analysis of decades-old barrels of toxic waste dumped off of the coast of Los Angeles, California, has solved the mystery of why some are surrounded by ghostly white halos on the seafloor. The ...

Several drums of hazardous waste were dumped on Monterey Road in Paso Robles in December, the San Luis Obispo County Department of Public Works said in a Tuesday news release. Five steel drums were ...