Until this reporting, the last known breach at a bauxite refinery occurred in Hungary in 2010. The failure of a red mud ...

Atlantic Alumina, also known as Atalco, is under investigation after state and federal inspectors documented months-long toxic waste leaks from its Gramercy refinery into surrounding public lands and ...

Devil's Swamp Lake is a manmade oxbow lake dug in ... Petro-Processors, another defunct hazardous waste facility, and Schuylkill Metals, later Exide Technologies, a defunct lead battery recycling ...

Aerial view of the Laidlaw/Safety Kleen hazardous waste landfill near the shores of Sparkleberry Swamp and Lake Marion. This photo, from the early 2000s, shows the proximity of the dump to the ...

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 ...

Waste from old landfill sites is spilling onto beaches as rising seas erode coastlines - and some of it is toxic ...

GRAMERCY — For several months, a River Parishes refinery unlawfully discharged industrial toxic waste containing arsenic ... that flows to the Blind River Swamp of Lake Maurepas, according ...