After dissolving, road salt can find its way into streams, lakes, and rivers, as well as into groundwater, which is the major source of drinking water for many towns and cities in the state ...

Road salt is a vital tool in making roads safer in snowy and icy weather, but it can do some real damage to your vehicle. Here's how to avoid it.

The pollution from road salt has only become a major problem in recent years. Looking at the chart below, the United States highway salt sales have gone up dramatically since 1990, staying ...

A mountain of road salt in Chelsea, Mass. (Hannah Reyes Morales for The Washington Post) The Nov. 2 news article “Our world is getting saltier, and we’re to blame” covered the health dangers ...

Rethinking Road Salt Put this stuff in asphalt, and you’ve really got something. Credit: Research paper, ACS Omega The environmental hazards posed by chloride-based salts are significant.

Road salt, or a liquid version of it, is used to melt snow and ice on roads across the U.S. It is very effective for making roads safer, but salt accelerates rust, which can damage safety-related ...

“Road salt itself loses about 70% of its effectiveness between 25 and 20 degrees," Zach Clothier told FOX 17. "So, in order to have the same level of service for a road commission, for instance ...

Road salt may hurt vital link in freshwater food chain, study says The team tracked individual plankton them from birth to death and exposed them to various concentrations of sodium chloride (rock ...