The city of Seattle reached out to five dozen city employees after contamination was discovered at the site of a former homeless encampment – but not the homeless people who lived there.
The Dutchess and Ulster County executives say they will take legal action in support of New York state's lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The Puyallup River is the second most polluted in the Puget Sound area and its salmon runs are being harmed, which in turn hurts orcas. Scientists are studying where PCBs and other contaminants are coming from.
Water conservation organizations filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court Monday against the Environmental Protection Agency over water pollution downstream from Los Alamos National Laboratory.
From the 1940s until the mid-1970s, General Electric sold off leftover asbestos material from its Peterborough factory for pennies a pound, delivering it by truck to hundreds of workers' homes.
There are plenty of villains in the latest chapter of the story concerning the way chemicals dumped for decades into the Hudson River have continued to pollute the river.
Lifelong exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) led to decreased nurturing behavior by male fathead minnows and lower survival rates of their offspring.
