Toxic contaminants from metal mining have infiltrated hundreds of thousands of kilometers of river channels around the world, exposing about 23 million people to potentially unsafe levels of lead, ...

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

The city houses one of the largest dry cleaning Superfund sites in the U.S. And yet almost no one knows. What few locals know, let alone tourists, is that the city also houses one of the largest dry ...

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

Five-gallon plastic pails holding a toxic chemical linked to cancer sat for years on the shelves of a fire department in south-central Wisconsin. Finally, in a heralded statewide cleanup, they were ...

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 ...

A new environmental lawsuit puts a spotlight on what critics describe as Ohio’s dangerous love affair with fracking, highlighting how the state’s permissive regulations have allowed toxic waste to be ...

Earthwatch Europe tested 59 sites across Corby and found toxic levels of metals at each location. | ITV National News ...

AL.com worked with the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism to report on how Wisconsin is sending its toxic PFAS waste to a landfill in the Alabama Black Belt. Here are seven takeaways. 1.

WASHINGTON — Twenty-five toxic waste sites in 15 states will be cleaned up, and ongoing work at dozens of others will get a funding boost, as the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday announced a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — Years of toxic waste ...