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 ...

More than a billion gallons of toxic sludge came crashing into Harriman, Tennessee, in the wee hours of a December morning in 2008. James Schean awoke to a loud clap as wood and glass exploded around ...

MADISON HEIGHTS, Mich. — On Dec. 20, a yellowish-green sludge oozed on to I-696 in Michigan, briefly shutting the highway down. The sludge was later identified as Hexavalent Chromium — the chemical ...

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 ...

Seven states are one flood away from a toxic sludge site spilling into the community. Mother Jones reported Friday, "Florida, New Jersey, California, Louisiana, New York, Massachusetts, and Texas ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. When the machines and men came to bury toxic sludge on a property near her house in the Mexican state of Tabasco, Lorenza Castro Castro at first ...

Even as the Ludhiana municipal corporation (MC) has repeatedly claimed that Buddha Nullah is being cleaned and rejuvenated, serious lapses have emerged in the handling of toxic sludge generated by the ...

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 ...

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 ...

If watching Clarkson’s Farm has informed most of your knowledge about farms and farming in the UK, you’re probably not alone. Even though much of what we eat begins its life in a farmer’s field, how ...

There was no stopping the avalanche of toxic red sludge: It smashed through the door of Kati Holczer's house, trapping the mother and her toddler in a sea of caustic waste. She saved her 3-year-old ...