UC Santa Barbara Professor David Valentine has been making headlines since 2020 for discovering evidence of widespread toxic-waste dumping off the California coast. The news caused outrage and concern ...

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 ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Environmental consultants this summer will be digging trenches and taking soil samples in this city’s Jefferson Memorial Forest, looking to document new evidence of toxic waste dumped ...

People who lost their homes are being told it’s safe to return and try to salvage what’s left. But experts believe it’s likely that wildfire waste is teeming with hazardous materials. Among the most ...

A Guardian and Quinto Elemento Lab investigation finds very high levels of lead and arsenic in homes near a factory processing US toxic waste ...

In Los Angeles, crews from the Environmental Protection Agency have started showing up in hazmat suits and digging through all the potential hazardous waste that the wildfires have left behind.

Zinc Nacional will move ‘most polluting’ operations after joint investigation found heavy-metals pollution in area ...