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 ...

RAMAPO ‒ A property contaminated years ago by the illegal dumping of toxic paint sludge has been earmarked for cleanup under the New York State Superfund program for hazardous waste sites. The ...

The United States is quietly asking communities to volunteer to host the most dangerous byproduct of modern energy, the highly radioactive sludge left over from nuclear power. Instead of imposing a ...

DEVECSER, Hungary (AP) - Hungary declared a state of emergency in three counties Tuesday after a flood of toxic red sludge from an alumina plant engulfed several towns and burned people through their ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Usually, I’m up to date on news from the Ivory Coast. A fragile peace is the only thing between the once ...

To the editor: While Williamstown builds a $20 million fire station, the Hoosac Water Quality District board, Town Manager Bob Menicocci and the Finance Committee expect us to be up in arms about $500 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than a billion gallons of toxic sludge came crashing into Harriman, Tennessee, in the wee hours of a December morning in 2008 ...

Greg Moss' workshop in Channelview is filled with tangles of boat motor parts, salvaged metal and weathered slices of history: old beer ads and auto show banners, signs about a Superfund site on the ...

Nationwide, sewage sludge is used to fertilize less than 1% of farmland, the EPA noted. Since PFAS are so persistent, though, any field fertilized with contaminated sludge decades ago can still be ...

The Climate reporter Hiroko Tabuchi is interested in all the things we take for granted about our environment. By Josh Ocampo Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — One Tennessee chapter of the Sierra Club has spoken out after a study found toxic sludge making its way into Tennessee waterways. Of greater concern: that sludge could ...

Despite a decade of dreaming, Elon Musk has only built one tiny Hyperloop tunnel in Las Vegas — and the people who built it say it’s filled with dangerous chemical sludge. In interviews with the news ...