A belated effort to remove chemical waste from the Union Carbide factory revives complaints of justice left incomplete.

The operator of a now-shuttered wood treatment facility in Eugene has pleaded guilty to multiple charges of breaking clean air and hazardous waste laws, and will pay $1.5 million in criminal penalties ...

Rebuilding homes destroyed by wildfires in the Los Angeles area could take more than a year to even begin — and that’s if everything goes smoothly, according to Rick Caruso, a billionaire developer ...

President Trump has revoked a 1994 directive that required agencies to protect minority or low-income areas from pollution and health hazards ...

According to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, around 12 ounces – roughly a coffee mug full – effectively treats a 20-foot driveway or 10 sidewalk squares (about 1,000 square feet).

In what's often called the world's worst industrial disaster, a 1984 chemical accident at a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, unleashed a toxic gas that killed thousands of people over subsequent ...

Residents living in the vicinity of a Pembrokeshire landfill emitting odours previously described as a ‘stink bomb on steroids’ say that their lives are being made a misery, and are demanding a public ...

Plans to expand a lakefront dump for polluted sediment would amount to “open dumping," given a landfill ban in Cook County, state environmental officials told a judge as activists sue to stop the ...

The Madhya Pradesh government has temporarily halted waste incineration. Authorities have stated that the local protests, ...

The reboot of the superhero comedy horror film The Toxic Avenger will now officially hit cinemas this year, despite previous ...

A huge contingent of fire vehicles have been tasked with containing a major inferno that has engulfed the main building of ...

The federal government has plans to launch a cleanup campaign involving toxic waste left by hard rock mining, including ...