In September 2020, workers in Brawley near the Mexico border began loading dump trucks with soil from the site of an old pesticide company. As an excavator carefully placed the Imperial County waste ...

East of Houston’s city limits, a battered Interstate 10 bridge soars over a narrow point in the San Jacinto River, slicing across the peninsula that houses two waste pits where toxic sludge was dumped ...

Pennsylvania is still cleaning up decades’ worth of coal mining pollution. Now it must also contend with millions of tons of ...

California shouldn’t weaken hazardous waste rules to allow local landfills to accept toxic dirt that currently goes to two specialized disposal sites in the Central Valley and hazardous facilities in ...

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A new study reveals that children in e-waste regions face a fourfold higher risk of hypertension, as toxic metals and VOCs alter gut-related metabolic pathways and disturb the body’s blood pressure ...

Ghana, Accra, Zongo Lane, Spring 2023. Zongo Lane is like an Alibaba cavern. Hundreds of small shops for all types of electronics components, modules, and general parts populate the narrow streets of ...

Maurizio Patriciello has been threatened by the Camorra for speaking out against illegal dumping of industrial chemicals on ...

Burning coal to generate electricity is fast becoming an artifact of a bygone era in Illinois. But while most of the state’s coal-fired power plants will be scrapped before the end of the decade, ...

Republican lawmakers have been accused of "the height of hypocrisy" by tabling a bill that would loosen regulations on industrial toxic waste disposal after many expressed their outrage at a toxic ...