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Toxic contaminants from metal mining have infiltrated hundreds of thousands of kilometers of river channels around the world, exposing about 23 million people to potentially unsafe levels of lead, ...

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection recently added textiles and mattresses to the list of materials banned from waste disposal and further lowered the threshold on banned ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to an event to announce a rollback of the 2009 Endangerment Finding in the Roosevelt Room at ...

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Malaysia says it is no longer accepting plastic waste from a handful of nations, including the U.S., that didn’t ratify the Basel Convention. Malaysia emerged as a major destination for waste from the ...

Casella Waste System’s Bethlehem landfill. This story was originally produced by the New Hampshire Bulletin, an independent local newsroom that allows NHPR and other outlets to republish its reporting ...

JUNE marks National Environment Month in South Africa, focusing on environmental awareness and action against plastic pollution. Narend Singh, the Deputy Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the ...