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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...