More than 40 years after the EPA deemed it a Superfund site, cleanup in the Tar Creek area in Ottawa County is seeing ...

Four sites along Chicago’s waterways reveal remnants of the river’s industrial past alongside restoration efforts that reveal its wild future. The Wild Mile is an innovative project aimed at ...

Today, Tar Creek is an environmental wasteland. Piles of toxic mine debris, known as chat, dot the landscape, and a creek runs red with contaminated water. Scientists still don’t know how to ...

Then people started getting sick, and eventually they realized just how toxic the land was after all that mining. Residents abandoned Treece in 2012 as part of a government-funded relocation ...

60 Minutes ventured to one of the most toxic places on Earth - a town in ... sewer that flows from the United States and into the wasteland. That wasteland is piled with the burning remains ...