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 ...

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

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 ...

Sandblasting material used to strip paint was trucked 500 miles or more to a remote warehouse near the Missouri River.

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, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...