Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Environmental Protection Agency plans to let 11 coal plants dump toxic coal ash into unlined pits until 2031 — a full decade ...

For more than four years, local, state and federal officials have pushed NRG to remove two coal ash ponds and the grassy field at its decommissioned Waukegan power plant along Lake Michigan, yet the ...

Nearly a year after a toxic asphalt spill in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, state and local officials and environmental advocates say the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ended the cleanup ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and Knoxville-based fusion company Type One Energy are establishing a fusion development campus at the Tennessee Valley ...

A 9,000-gallon sewage spill has closed a section of Annapolis’ Spa Creek, the Anne Arundel County Department of Health said Thursday. A grease blockage, which has since been resolved, caused the spill ...

PETALING JAYA: Pantai Teluk Kalong near Chukai, Kemaman, Terengganu, has been polluted by black solid material believed to be coal that spilled from a drifting barge that struck rocks in the coastal ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A three-year veil of secrecy in the name of national security was used to keep the public in the dark about the handling of highly enriched uranium at a nuclear fuel processing ...

Industrial runoff and continued habits of disposing of chemical materials across the country and in Mississippi have led to an increase in toxic materials in the state’s waterways. Many of these ...