A plan for cleaning up toxic waste at the Tremont City Barrel Fill and to protect the region’s water supply has been finalized, Springfield officials announced Tuesday evening. A consent decree has ...

When he moved to Gainesville’s Stephen Foster neighborhood in 2008, Robert Pearce just wanted to live on a creek. He didn’t know that it would lead to his involvement in the cleanup of a hazardous ...

Across coal country, the same toxic sludge and rust-colored water that once symbolized the end of an industry is starting to look like the beginning of something else. Buried in coal ash ponds, mine ...

Hazmat School reports that industries generating hazardous waste, like manufacturing and healthcare, must train workers to ensure safety and environmental protection.

GREENVILLE, S.C. (WSPA) — A cleanup is underway in a Greenville area that’s long been underserved, but with the help of a new initiative, it’s getting a fresh start. Newtown is a neighborhood in ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) — A multi-million dollar effort to clean hundreds of thousands of gallons of toxic waste out of the USS Yorktown has been completed after nearly two years of work, South ...

Environmental crews are focusing on cleaning up hazardous materials in southern Oregon at mobile home parks and communities with clusters of manufactured homes that were particularly hard hit in ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — Residents will have a chance to weigh in on how the town should clean up toxic waste this summer from a former dry cleaner on Main Street. The town’s Planning Department is holding ...

Two decades ago, the sprawling grounds of the shuttered Lawrence Aviation Industries in Port Jefferson Station were littered with thousands of barrels leaking industrial solvents that created a ...

A stalk of developing wild rice stands in Big Rice Lake, a 3,000 acre lake south of Remer, Minn. NINA MOINI: Well, it's been more than 40 years since cleanup began on a hazardous waste site in ...

Children, homeless people and even city officials entered the building in Berger, Missouri, unaware they were inhaling toxic dust. BERGER, Missouri — When he walked into the warehouse on Zero Road, ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Williamson County and Waste Management are set to host a household hazardous waste clean-up event on October 25, according to a press release. The event will take place at the ...