As floods get more severe and more frequent as a result of climate change, the risk of toxic pollutants being released from ...

The toxins come from a pair of waste pits built at the river’s edge in the mid-1960s to dump hazardous waste from a nearby paper mill. The northern pit — which contains dangerous levels of ...

Known in military jargon as a ‘burn pit’, it was where jet fuel was used, day and night, to set fire to all manner of hazardous waste material – from used tired, vehicle parts, ammunition ...

EXCLUSIVE: Companies behind dangerous San Jacinto toxic waste pits in stalemate with EPA over cleanup The EPA's "work takeover notice" was sent Jan. 5 to the project coordinator for the Superfund ...

State regulators are investigating the incident after the stained birds were sighted on Lake Balmorhea. Advocates call for ...

As Washington refocuses on the issue of burn pits—waste fires used extensively in Afghanistan and Iraq which emitted toxic smoke that later sickened troops—Military Times is republishing our ...

Under the PACT Act, the VA has approved 59,372 disability compensation claims from more than 51,000 veterans and surviving relatives residing in Georgia.

SINGAPORE: As Singapore’s toxic industrial waste volume grows, the need to treat it properly before it is released into the nation’s waterways has come under the spotlight. Singapore typically ...

Forty years after the Bhopal gas tragedy, the world's worst industrial disaster, 337 metric tonnes of hazardous waste remains in a shed of the now defunct Union Carbide despite Rs 126 crore being ...

FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2017, file photo, workers are shown at San Jacinto River Waste Pits near the Interstate 10 bridge over the river in Channelview, Texas. Federal environmental regulators have ...