Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In September 2020, workers in Brawley near the Mexico border began loading dump trucks with soil from the site of an old pesticide ...

“Dirty” or “extremely dirty”: these are the classifications of 46% of the world’s aquatic environments. This conclusion comes from a study that compiled and systematized data from 6,049 records of ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - The City of Lexington’s residential waste audit is underway. The pilot program aims to educate people about what can and cannot be thrown in the recycling and yard waste carts.

The Environmental Protection Agency has approved resuming shipments of contaminated liquid and soil out of East Palestine, Ohio, where a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed earlier this month. The ...

A plastic drinks bottle is one of the most “recyclable” objects in the modern waste stream. It is lightweight and collected in huge volumes. Yet even for this item, the reality of recycling is messy: ...