Coast to coast: Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern acknowledged Thursday that they were in merger talks that would create a single U.S railroad with rails stretching service from East to West ...

Jul. 21—A large quarry and cement plant in the hills west of Cupertino that have existed for decades are winding down operations. But work on environmental projects to clean up their past is ...

Radioactive contamination from Coldwater Creek in Missouri linked to higher cancer rates, a Harvard study finds, as Congress expands the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.

Cupertino quarry owner to begin multimillion-dollar cleanup of mining waste in creek Permanente Creek project is part of a lawsuit filed by the Sierra Club; fate of quarry site still undecided ...

A new study in JAMA shows how proximity to Coldwater Creek, where nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project was improperly stored, affected cancer rates over the decades.