RAMAPO ‒ A property contaminated years ago by the illegal dumping of toxic paint sludge has been earmarked for cleanup under the New York State Superfund program for hazardous waste sites. The ...

More than a billion gallons of toxic sludge came crashing into Harriman, Tennessee, in the wee hours of a December morning in 2008. James Schean awoke to a loud clap as wood and glass exploded around ...

East of Houston’s city limits, a battered Interstate 10 bridge soars over a narrow point in the San Jacinto River, slicing across the peninsula that houses two waste pits where toxic sludge was dumped ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Usually, I’m up to date on news from the Ivory Coast. A fragile peace is the only thing between the once ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. When the machines and men came to bury toxic sludge on a property near her house in the Mexican state of Tabasco, Lorenza Castro Castro at first ...

To the editor: While Williamstown builds a $20 million fire station, the Hoosac Water Quality District board, Town Manager Bob Menicocci and the Finance Committee expect us to be up in arms about $500 ...

Nationwide, sewage sludge is used to fertilize less than 1% of farmland, the EPA noted. Since PFAS are so persistent, though, any field fertilized with contaminated sludge decades ago can still be ...

Seven states are one flood away from a toxic sludge site spilling into the community. Mother Jones reported Friday, "Florida, New Jersey, California, Louisiana, New York, Massachusetts, and Texas ...

Texans living in a 250-square-mile area of Harris County that includes a hazardous Superfund site had abnormally high rates of certain types of cancer, according to a new assessment from the state’s ...

Government data shows that nine English water firms, including Thames Water, United Utilities, and Severn Trent, processed more than 500,000 tonnes of sewage sludge destined for agriculture in 2024.

There was no stopping the avalanche of toxic red sludge: It smashed through the door of Kati Holczer's house, trapping the mother and her toddler in a sea of caustic waste. She saved her 3-year-old ...