Agents of Behemoth

In the farthest reaches of northeastern Oklahoma lies one of the worst toxic waste areas in the country. The Tar Creek Superfund site is the EPA's largest...

Canada’s West Coast has become a “toilet bowl” for cruise ship sewage and toxic waste, according to a recent report from environmental groups. The report, produced by Stand.Earth and B.C.-based West Coast Environmental Law, found cruise ships en route to Alaska from the U.S. discharge roughly 31 billion litres of waste into Canadian waters every year before COVID-19, including in protected areas. 

One in six Americans lives within three miles of a toxic waste site—often unknowingly.

After years of protesting the White Mesa uranium mill, Ute Mountain Utes and environmental groups cheered the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision last week to stop the mill...

The US state of California announced Monday it is suing Walmart, alleging the retail giant unlawfully disposes of millions of toxic waste items. 

A long awaited project to capture and treat the polluted mine runoff before it reaches Belt Creek got underway this past week.

It's the first new undersea study of the DDT dumping problem in a decade.

Two communities in Ontario have been shortlisted as potential homes for Canada's most radioactive nuclear waste.

From raw sewage to microplastics, our oceans and waterways are becoming more toxic by the day...

Dead livestock, cancer, arsenic in your water—that’ll be $100 billion in tax breaks, please.

A new report released today details the potentially disastrous threats mines in British Columbia pose to Washington and other states in the Northwest. Toxic liquid waste from mines, known as tailings, is stored behind dozens of dams in British Columbia.

An investigation by Greenpeace found that five sites in southern Turkey are contaminated with hazardous chemical pollutants following the illegal dumping and open burning of imported plastic waste...

Nearly 50 toxic waste sites around the U.S. will be cleaned up, and ongoing work at dozens of others will get a funding boost, as federal environmental...

Burning rubbish to make electricity sounds too good to be true because there’s a big catch.

Congress has a chance to protect public health by making polluters pay to clean up their mess.

Minister says job-oriented memorial to come up on abandoned Union Carbide premises...

A massive underwater toxic waste site has long been suspected off the Southern California shore, since industrial companies used the ocean as a dumping ground until 1972. Now marine scientists have identified over 25,000 barrels they believe contain the toxic chemical DDT in the Pacific Ocean.

The Trump EPA wants to reapprove a dangerous herbicide and is hiding behind the COVID-19 pandemic to excuse its manufacturer from monitoring levels of the poison in Midwest lakes and streams.The Trump EPA plans to raise the concentration of atrazine, the nation’s second-most used herbicide, allowed...