If the Wayne Disposal Inc. hazardous waste landfill follows relevant state and federal laws, state environmental regulators have no ability to deny its request to expand its storage capacity by ...

Six chefs share their most creative ways to decrease food waste, save money and protect the environment all at once.

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 ...

Plastic waste has been known to harm the environment and can pollute waterways and leach chemicals into the ecosystem. Microplastics have also been found almost everywhere on Earth and in our bodies.

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation identified a man who was found dead at a waste disposal facility in Catoosa.

With genetic tweaks, E. coli turned 92 percent of broken-down plastic into acetaminophen, charting a path to upcycle plastic waste sustainably.

Paracetamol (acetaminophen) production could be revolutionized by the discovery that a common bacterium can turn everyday plastic waste into the painkiller. The new method leaves virtually no ...

Aid cuts have reached a level where they undermine our national interest as well as corrode our souls.

The Supreme Court rejected Texas’s bid to axe federal approval of a nuclear waste storage facility, arguing the state did not have the right to bring its challenge in the first place. In a 6-3 ...

The decision is the latest chapter in the decadeslong battle over what to do with the waste generated by the nation's nuclear power plants.

The Supreme Court on June 18 rejected challenges to a nuclear waste storage site on the Texas-New Mexico border.

A state law that mandated diversion of organic waste from landfills is being blamed for exacerbating illegal dumping in remote desert areas.