The United States is preparing to mine a rare nuclear resource from some of its most dangerous Cold War legacies, turning ...

Starting Jan. 1, Californians will pay a new fee every time they buy a product such as a power tool with a non-removable ...

The smell in Mentor’s Woodhill subdivision is so overpowering it feels like “walking with a dirty diaper on your face,” neighbors say, making them sick and forcing them indoors. Even their homes ...

Starting January 1, Californians will pay a new fee every time they buy a product with a non-removable battery – whether it’s a power tool, a PlayStation, or even a singing greeting card.

Only a handful of holidays affect trash collection in nearly every area county. While most counties also do not have garbage ...

A novel satellite-based method to track fossil fuel CO2 emissions with greater precision than ever before marks a ...

Pennsylvania is still cleaning up decades’ worth of coal mining pollution. Now it must also contend with millions of tons of ...

The public and politicians in both parties saw the urgency 50 years ago and enacted the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and ...

Former government officials say the state isn’t doing enough to regulate fracking waste, even as new research shows it’s far ...

Although the technology exists to separate these fibers for reuse, it remains in its early stages and is costly to scale. In ...

Fifty years after the James river’s closure, Virginia’s worst environmental disaster — one that sickened scores of citizens and crippled a vital industry — marks a nadir in the state’s ...