The Supreme Court appeared unsympathetic to the tiny island territory, which will have to foot the entire bill to clean up a massive dump that the U.S. Navy created in the 1940s if the justices don’t rule in its favor.
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Environmentalists say a leak from the pond could devastate the Tampa Bay area for decades.
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U.S. Navy contractor Tetra Tech EC failed in its bid to get four lawsuits accusing it of falsifying soil tests for a radioactive cleanup project tossed out of court.
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PG&E could be held liable for continued discharges of pollution into the San Francisco Bay that came from a now-demolished gas factory operated at the turn of the century.
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The plan to store thousands of tons of spent uranium underground for up to 60 years isn’t authorized by Congress, the state says in a federal complaint filed Monday.
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Problems with a novel approach to ethanol production could be imperiling an aquifer.
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The ruling coming just days after the state ordered a scrap metal facility to clean up the site near where the A’s plan to build their new stadium.
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41 North African migrants, some hiding in dangerous conditions, are found and rescued by Spanish authorities.
Read moreCalifornia reached a $4.1 million settlement with Schnitzer Steel Industries over claims the company violated environmental laws while operating its metal shredding and recycling facility in West Oakland.
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A draft investigation report into the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown, adopted by Japanese nuclear regulators Wednesday, says it has detected dangerously high levels of radioactive contamination at two of the three reactors, adding to concerns about decommissioning challenges.
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Federal regulators are withdrawing a nuclear waste proposal that had prompted an unusually widespread chorus of opposition, including from those who worried the plan could have led to toxic waste being shipped to local landfills across the U.S.
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During the Covid-19 pandemic, 3D printers have been widely used to produce face shields, respirators and other personal protective equipment, but the manufacturing device also poses some health hazards for humans, according to new research presented Tuesday.
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Sparking criticism from environmentalists, the outgoing Trump administration said Wednesday it will not require power plants, chemical manufacturers and oil and gas producers to have insurance covering toxic waste cleanups.
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Pacific Gas and Electric must face claims that a gas plant operated by its predecessors more than 100 years ago continues to leak harmful toxins into the San Francisco Bay, a federal judge has ruled.
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California lawmakers excoriated the state agency tasked with cleaning up the neighborhoods surrounding a shuttered battery recycling plant, blasting cost overruns and the excruciatingly slow pace of operations.
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Coal ash, a top polluting waste in the United States second only to household trash, is flowing unchecked from power plants under President Donald Trump, nine conservation groups suing the Environmental Protection Agency claimed Monday.
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Cleaning up the abandoned Exide battery recycling plant in Los Angeles County will cost California taxpayers nearly $400 million dollars in addition to other costs the state has already paid and the regulatory agency in charge is woefully behind schedule, the state auditor found.
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A Russian official said Monday that the sea off the remote Kamchatka peninsula may have been contaminated with toxic chemicals as Greenpeace warned of an “ecological disaster” for marine life.
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