Trucks hauling material to the Waste Management landfill site just outside Kettleman City, home to the largest toxic waste dump in the western U.S., in December 2009. (Reed Saxon / Associated Press) A ...

As Hurricane Milton pummeled Florida’s west coast with powerful winds and flooding rain, environmentalists worry it could scatter the polluted leftovers of the state’s phosphate fertilizer mining ...

Exclusive: US companies are increasingly shipping toxic waste to other countries, where some argue it poses a risk ...

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 ...

Zinc Nacional will move ‘most polluting’ operations after joint investigation found heavy-metals pollution in area ...

MORRISTOWN, Tenn. (WATE) — The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conversation is scheduled to collect hazardous waste in Hamblen, Roane and DeKalb Counties on Saturday, a spokesperson wrote.

A state environmental oversight board voted unanimously to rescind a controversial proposal that would have permitted California municipal landfills to accept contaminated soil that is currently ...