Cleaning up from one of the largest wildfire disasters in recent history takes a while. The first phase of the cleanup around Los Angeles involved removing truckloads of hazardous household stuff, ...

This article is the first in a series on the environmental costs of America’s last remaining alumina refinery. GRAMERCY — For several months, a River Parishes refinery unlawfully discharged industrial ...

In a rural pocket of western Pennsylvania, along the leafy banks of Sewickley Creek, a small, jagged pipe juts just above the waterline, its cement casing carpeted in moss. The pipe releases treated ...

Read Part I of this story here. YUKON, Pa.—When government inspectors arrived at the hazardous waste landfill here in 2023, they found themselves in a barren and alien landscape carved from western ...

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

For two weeks, officials have largely declined to answer questions about where wildfire debris will end up. The Times has identified seven landfills that have taken steps to accept this waste.

Ohio has silently assumed a disturbing role as the region’s dumping ground for toxic fracking waste, and the implications could be catastrophic for future generations. Today in Ohio podcast hosts ...

Colleen O’Neil, of the Mountain Watershed Association, fixes a crooked sign posted near a landfill's discharge pipe that flows into Sewickley Creek in Yukon, Pa. Credit: Scott Goldsmith/Inside Climate ...

A record-breaking number of people worked to meet the Feb. 25 debris clearance deadline set by the Trump administration after the January fires About one-third of properties damaged in the Eaton and ...

This article is the first in a series on the environmental costs of America’s last remaining alumina refinery. GRAMERCY — For several months, a River Parishes refinery unlawfully discharged industrial ...