The medians and shoulders of our roads and highways are awash with rocks, gravel and other unsightly debris. What’s going on, and why can’t local agencies clear up all the detritus?

A rocky part of Green Road is getting a makeover as the Genesee County Road Commission plans to pave the gravel. “It’s probably one of the busiest roads in Genesee County in terms of gravel ...

ATLANTA — The City of Atlanta has been paying thousands of dollars monthly to re-gravel a road that neighbors say should have been paved more than a decade ago. Channel 2′s Tyisha Fernandes ...

Crews will pave what is a gravel road right now with asphalt made entirely from recycled plastic bags. It will be the first road of its kind in the state of Nebraska and will reuse about 2,000,000 ...

8—An oil company developing a large field on ... The controversy centered over 75 miles of gravel roads in ConocoPhillips' Kuparuk River field. The road system is needed to reach the adjacent ...

A main road in Surrey could be closed for a week to allow time to clear up after an oil spill, a council has said. A three-vehicle crash happened on the A25 Godstone Road between Bletchingley and ...

In places like Bradford County, which has the most miles of unpaved road in the state at just under 1,600, maintaining the dirt and gravel isn't just about transportation and smoothing out a bumpy ...

oil spills can take months or years to clean up, while exposing people to toxic compounds and harming wildlife. Various methods are deployed to clean up oil spills, including the use of absorbent ...

04/02/2025 April 2, 2025 In one former mining town in Zambia, more than 200,000 children and women have been shown to have elevated levels of lead poisoning. Decades of mining left some 6.4 ...