A long-standing environmental liability may soon become a strategic industrial asset. Researchers in Denmark ...

Darlington County’s Robbie O’Neal has been outspoken about how unsuspecting farmers who used sludge as fertilizer later ...

An undeveloped Ramapo property contaminated by the dumping of toxic paint sludge has been earmarked for cleanup under the state Superfund program.

Oct. 11—A Southwest Missouri residents group is preparing to sue the Missouri Department of Natural Resources over new rules that could allow companies that spread food production and sewage waste as ...

A Guardian and Quinto Elemento Lab investigation finds very high levels of lead and arsenic in homes near a factory processing US toxic waste ...

If you've ever marveled at the foil from your favorite chocolate bar or a shiny new bicycle, you have bauxite to thank for it, Interesting Engineering explained. This common mineral serves as the main ...

MADISON HEIGHTS, Mich. — On Dec. 20, a yellowish-green sludge oozed on to I-696 in Michigan, briefly shutting the highway down. The sludge was later identified as Hexavalent Chromium — the chemical ...

East of Houston’s city limits, a battered Interstate 10 bridge soars over a narrow point in the San Jacinto River, slicing across the peninsula that houses two waste pits where toxic sludge was dumped ...

To the editor: While Williamstown builds a $20 million fire station, the Hoosac Water Quality District board, Town Manager Bob Menicocci and the Finance Committee expect us to be up in arms about $500 ...

Nationwide, sewage sludge is used to fertilize less than 1% of farmland, the EPA noted. Since PFAS are so persistent, though, any field fertilized with contaminated sludge decades ago can still be ...

Mayor O’Rourke cautioned me that two issues, the Rose Drive dump and the IT toxic dump, would occupy most of my time and energy during my future tenure on the city council. Boy, was her warning ...