The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is studying the groundwater and soil beneath Hillcrest for harmful chemicals. The state already has studied air emissions in the area and nothing in that data shows air pollution above screening levels set to protect human health.

The Barnett Shale gas drilling brought a lot of wealth and jobs to Dish, Texas but it’s also brought bad air and water. An air quality study last year found high levels of toxins and carcinogens in the air.

Locals in a Shanghai village are accusing a plastic workshop of poisoning them by discharging pollutants that induce cancers.

A Simon Fraser University researcher will concentrate his search for potential causes of childhood leukemia in southern Iraq, where the rate of the blood cancer in some areas is now four times that of neighbouring Kuwait.

One of the most detailed investigations ever conducted in Canada into the fate of road salt has found that it is polluting groundwater and causing some streams during winter thaws to have salinity levels just under those found in the ocean.

Swedish scientists have discovered a remarkable increase in the incidence of leukemia in people living close to an oil refinery.

The Macon Water Authority is expected to vote today to create a policy that would prevent a proposed oil re-refinery from locating in Bibb County, unless it pays to haul its liquid waste elsewhere.

The Environmental Protection Agency has added a cluster of waste-disposal sites in Chicago and a former copper smelter in southern Illinois to its list of Superfund locations.

A North Carolina senator will allow the appointment of two top Navy officials to go forward after blocking their nominations because of a dispute over water contamination at the Camp Lejeune, N.C., Marine Corps base.

The closed Kerr-McGee fertilizer factory in Jacksonville’s Talleyrand area became a federal Superfund site Tuesday, opening a door to an eventual government-financed pollution cleanup.

Lawyers for a group of northern Baltimore County residents are appealing a state decision that allows ExxonMobil to stop monitoring some residential wells contaminated after thousands of gallons of gasoline seeped into the groundwater in 2006.

About a dozen Pompton Lakes residents held signs and chanted in protest outside DuPont’s new information center Monday, upset that the federal Environmental Protection Agency has not opened its own neutral site.

An incorrect historical summary led to a dramatic understatement of the levels of toxins in the water supply at Camp Lejeune when officials from Michael Baker Corp. released reports about the contamination in the early 1990s, the company has said.

Wood-fired boilers that send soot and dust from backyard smokestacks could face tougher regulations under rules proposed by Indiana environmental officials to help protect air quality.

A Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit last week launched the Texas Oil and Gas Accountability Project, a new push that organizers hope will lead to sweeping changes in how the energy industry operates in Texas.

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has worked hard to earn its reputation as a lazy watchdog. But last Wednesday the agency outdid itself, voting to allow LyondellBasell Industries, one of the nation's largest emitters of benzene, to renew its 10-year state pollution permit — without the muss and fuss of a public hearing.

At least the Navy finally has agreed to finance a study into who may have been sickened - or killed - by the befouled faucets of Camp Lejeune.

Thousands of tank systems across Pennsylvania have failed and contaminated soil and water exposing neighborhoods to dangerous chemicals.

U.S. military personnel and their families who lived on the U.S. Naval Air Facility at Atsugi when a Japanese-owned incinerator fumigated the base continue to suffer health effects, and for years they have fought for recognition and medical help from their government.

For decades, Mossville residents have complained about their health problems to industry and government. This predominantly African-American community in southwest Louisiana suspects the 14 chemical plants nearby have played a role in the cancer and other diseases that have ravaged the area.

An Institute of Medicine panel this week began its investigation into possible links between illnesses being reported by Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans and contractors and their exposure to burn pits there.

ArcelorMittal has proposed adding a new underground injection well at its Burns Harbor plant to dispose of hazardous waste for the next 10 years.

For what appears to be the first time, a former resident of Camp Lejeune, N.C., has been permitted to move ahead with a claim against the Marine Corps for years of water contamination that she says led to the development of her non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

A group of labor unions, environmentalists and civic activists Thursday disclosed a list of 495 carcinogens that their research showed are in materials being used in Korea and urged the administration to take tougher action to prevent their use.

Mike Markham of Colorado has an explosive problem: His tap water catches fire. It's demonstrated in a new documentary, "Gasland," that shows how people living near gas wells are suffering water contamination, air pollution and numerous health problems that crop up after fracking.

Texas' environmental agency is set to renew the air pollution permit of Houston's largest refinery for 10 years despite the city's contention that the Ship Channel refinery emits high levels of benzene that pose an unreasonable risk to Houstonians.

The Department of the Navy has agreed to fund a health survey of former Camp Lejeune residents exposed to contaminated drinking water between the 1950s and 1980s, according to information provided by Navy officials.

There was a time when the sight of a Waukegan mayor taking a sledgehammer to the Outboard Marine Corp. plant would have been unthinkable.

It’s anyone’s guess if Whole Foods Market will finally open a long-delayed superstore planned for the banks of Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal, but at least the organic specialty food chain has finally begun cleaning up the toxic site eyed for the project.

Oil and gas regulators say they hope that “meaningful remediation work” begins this year on the contamination of spring water on the Prather property northwest of Parachute, a state official said Monday.

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