Environmental chemists and waste‑management engineers are drawing new attention to an old form of litter: cigarette filters made from cellulose acetate. Recent peer‑reviewed work in ...

Five-gallon plastic pails holding a toxic chemical linked to cancer sat for years on the shelves of a fire department in south-central Wisconsin. Finally, in a heralded statewide cleanup, they were ...

As Emily McHugh and her family moved into a home on Ayres Street in Wayne County's Van Buren Township in Michigan about a decade ago, they knew they were moving close to a landfill. "We weren't in a ...

Santa Fe, NM — In a major shift from its previous position, the New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission (WQCC) this week voted to adopt a new rule requiring permits for all oil and gas “produced ...

Daily solvent use is pretty much a given in a synthetic chemistry lab. In academic laboratories, it’s such an ingrained part of research that chemists might forget that solvents can be serious safety ...

Wayne Disposal hazardous waste landfill off I-94 in Van Buren Township seeks a nearly 23% increase in its storage capacity from regulators. The landfill has generated public controversy from accepting ...

The Climate reporter Hiroko Tabuchi is interested in all the things we take for granted about our environment. By Josh Ocampo Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers ...

A 2021 DTSC draft framework of how the law might work notes that a community with scores above the 60th percentile would be considered vulnerable. But DSTC has not yet established an internal policy ...

A state environmental oversight board voted unanimously to rescind a controversial proposal that would have permitted California municipal landfills to accept contaminated soil that is currently ...