When Xcel Energy stopped burning coal at its Valmont Power Station in 2017, it left 1.6 million tons of toxic coal ash on the property — and now that waste is leaching hazardous metals.

The decision isn't final-final and even when it is, could be appealed. Here's what had the Planning Commission's ire.

Standing near the base of Teakettle Mountain, where the Columbia Falls Aluminum Company’s contaminated Superfund property ...

The bombardment of Gaza has left a toxic legacy of contaminated soil, blackened water and disease-spreading garbage that will last generations.

A proposed driving range and pickleball stadium has drawn scrutiny from the MPCA over decades-old underlying contamination.

A university biologist fears Project Blue data centers will need reclaimed water that now runs in the Santa Cruz. Tucson ...

Residents say it will be death sentence to move to Mumbai’s fringe areas where garbage and waste is dumped or treated.

Places like Springs and Brakpan on the East Rand are seeing bridges slowly erode and roads collapsing, like the Rondebult ...

Environmentalists are suing to stop the flow of 1,4-dioxane from a nearby factory into Asheboro's drinking water supply.

As the population has grown in the region, so has the amount of garbage Horry County takes into its landfill. In the 2015 fiscal year, the county took in about 239,000 tons. In 2024, the county took ...

Several environmental groups are urging the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to deny a wastewater permit for an Ottumwa ...

Photo: Margaret Carmel/BoiseDev A closure sign posted by Elmore County at the entrance road leading to the Simco Road Regional Landfill. Photo: Margaret Carmel/BoiseDev A shuttered landfill near the ...