Indian authorities said on Thursday they had completed moving toxic waste from the site of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster, which killed more than 5,000 people. :: December 3, 1984 On December 3, ...

California shouldn’t weaken hazardous waste rules to allow local landfills to accept toxic dirt that currently goes to two specialized disposal sites in the Central Valley and hazardous facilities in ...

Dumping toxic waste where people may come into contact with it is, often, a crime. That it's not prosecuted often enough doesn't make it legal.

Sandblasting material used to strip paint was trucked 500 miles or more to a remote warehouse near the Missouri River. Trucks filled with 66 tons of hazardous material left Yazoo City, Mississippi, on ...

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Documents show the industry and regulators knew decades ago that injecting drilling's toxic liquid leftovers underground wasn't safe ...

Albanian police arrested 20 people over their role in smuggling toxic waste from the Balkan country to Thailand, the force said Wednesday. The arrests come over a year after the prosecutor's office in ...