Every day or once a week, our original stories and digest of the web’s top headlines ... drums as well as digging trenches to see whether unseen barrels or containers of toxic waste were also ...

Coined the "Valley of the Drums", the site near Wilson Creek and the Jefferson Memorial Forest was one of the toxic waste dumps that spurred the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to create its ...

Twenty-two drums of toxic waste have been removed from the former ... “The health and safety of the Bethpage community remains a top priority for [the] DEC,” interim commissioner Sean Mahar ...

19,800 tons of toxic waste had been buried just twenty-five feet under the ground in the Love Canal. The site was filled with chemicals only contained by the walls of their steel drum prisons.

Once a drum meets the RCRA-empty criteria, it can be sent for reuse or disposal without being classified as hazardous waste. The ANPRM: A Push for Stricter Controls? The 2022 EPA Damage Case ...

Get top local stories in Southern California delivered to you every morning with NBC LA's News Headlines newsletter. The Department of Toxic Substances Control said disposing more waste in state ...

Starting in the 1950s, Ciba-Geigy — which had been the town’s largest employer — flushed chemicals into the Toms River and the Atlantic Ocean, and buried 47,000 drums of toxic waste in the ...

Federal and state officials say the temporary sites for processing hazardous waste pose ... electronic waste and chemicals into drums and plastic-lined boxes. Nearby, a large tub had been set ...