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, ...

This article is the first in a series on the environmental costs of America’s last remaining alumina refinery. GRAMERCY — For several months, a River Parishes refinery unlawfully discharged industrial ...

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 ...

Planet China: Eighth in a series about how Beijing’s trillion-dollar development plan is reshaping the globe—and the natural world. A Chinese mining company is denying that its toxic waste spill, one ...

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 ...

Pennsylvania is still cleaning up decades’ worth of coal mining pollution. Now it must also contend with millions of tons of ...

Jackie Medcalf, right, speaks to the media at a September 16 press conference regarding an Environmental Protection Agency order for the San Jacinto River Toxic Waste Pits Superfund Site. Credit: ...

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 ...

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This article is the first in a series on the environmental costs of America’s last remaining alumina refinery. GRAMERCY — For several months, a River Parishes refinery unlawfully discharged industrial ...