PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) – Results from a soil study are showing the significant impacts of decades of industrial contamination at Willamette Cove. The site, on the east side of the river just north of ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The state of Oregon has launched an investigation into contaminated soil and compost after receiving complaints. Lab results from the Oregon Department of Agriculture found ...

Preliminary soil testing in the aftermath of the Palisades and Eaton wildfires has uncovered isolated pockets of chemical contamination in the Palisades area, prompting calls for further investigation ...

This story, a partnership between the Center for Public Integrity and Grist, is the third in a soil lead-contamination series that began at Grist (read parts one and two). Reporter Yvette Cabrera has ...

When petroleum-contaminated soil is discovered, the first instinct is likely to clean it up right away. But the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR) takes a different approach. In part, ...

The Houston Health Department on Friday notified Fifth Ward residents that dioxin — a highly toxic chemical compound — was found in dozens of soil samples collected near the Union Pacific railyard in ...

Anthony Drouin, residuals management supervisor, collects samples of sludge on June 10. He'll test them for PFAS. Wastewater plants get their sludge tested a few times a year, depending on their size.

As the JH Baxter wood treatment plant prepares to cease operations on Jan. 31, west Eugene residents are waiting for the company to announce its plan to clean up lawns after soil samples revealed ...

EWA BEACH, Hawaii (Island News) – The U.S. Marine Corps is collecting hundreds of soil samples around the Pu'uloa Range Training Facility with the help of scientists and Ewa Beach community members.

Nalleli Garrido's son Ruben, 2, stands on the porch of his home gazing at the front yard where he rarely played in Santa Ana's Logan Barrio in 2018. (Yvette Cabrera / Center for Public Integrity) This ...