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 September 2020, workers in Brawley near the Mexico border began loading dump trucks with soil from the site of an old pesticide company. As an excavator carefully placed the Imperial County waste ...

BHUBANESHWAR, (Reuters) – Indian authorities said on January 2 they had completed moving toxic waste from the site of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster, which killed more than 5,000 people, to a ...

As Emily McHugh and her family moved into a home on Ayres Street in Wayne County's Van Buren Township about a decade ago, they knew they were moving close to a landfill. "We weren't in a situation ...

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 ...

State lawmakers are planning an oversight hearing that will look into how California handles toxic soil from old industrial, military and other cleanup sites — waste contaminated with things such as ...

For two weeks, officials have largely declined to answer questions about where wildfire debris will end up. The Times has identified seven landfills that have taken steps to accept this waste.

As Emily McHugh and her family moved into a home on Ayres Street in Wayne County's Van Buren Township in Michigan about a decade ago, they knew they were moving close to a landfill. "We weren't in a ...