In a downtown Tacoma parking lot behind a statue of a woman holding the city’s skyline in her hands sits an unusual sight. Since at least Sunday, 15 black barrels with neon-yellow toxic-waste symbols ...

Half a million barrels of toxic waste lurking beneath the waves just miles from California’s coastline sounds like the plot ...

But information passed on by a whistleblower to the Basel Action Network suggested the cargo actually contained "hazardous waste pollution dust from secondary steel mills", according to a ...

with the series examining the Corby toxic waste case for a new audience. The miniseries stars Jodie Whittaker, Aimee Lou Wood, Robert Carlyle, Claudia Jessie and more as the family members impacted by ...

Mar. 6, 2025 — Sweden's radioactive nuclear waste will be stored in a sealed bedrock repository for 100,000 years. It will be hazardous for a very long time. So how can we ensure that humanity ...

Forty years later, authorities have only just begun to deal with some of the toxic waste — by burning it. Locals have been protesting the plan, which they say is damaging their health.

State researchers found above normal levels of four types of cancer in communities near a toxic waste site. Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story.

Yes, Toxic Town is based on the real story of the Corby toxic waste case, which saw families impacted by the scandal. Between 1985 and 1997 a number of children in the Corby area were born with ...

Federal officials counter that the debris can be disposed safely at the local landfills, and that trucking it to far away hazardous waste dumps would require longer truck trips that would delay ...

All of that went to landfills designated to take hazardous waste. The cleanup is now in phase two, which involves removing all the remaining debris. And it is not going very far at all — in fact ...