MIDLAND -- More than a century after Dow Chemical Co. began dumping dioxins into a river flowing past its mid-Michigan plant, the company and regulators are still debating how to cleanse a swath of ...

This story was updated at 5:25 p.m. Friday due to new information from DEQ spokesperson Dylan Darling about the number of homes waiting for soil testing results, a resident who since got in contact ...

Neighbors and agencies tasked with cleaning up yards, gardens and soil contaminated with dioxins from the J.H. Baxter & Co. plant in West Eugene are still waiting for work to get underway more than a ...

The contamination likely stemmed from the nearby J.H. Baxter plant, which treated wood products with rot-prevention chemicals like creosote. The plant accrued fines for emissions violations and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the Environmental Protection Agency last week ordered testing for dioxins after the recent train derailment and fire in East ...

More than a decade after tightening exposure standards for dioxin, federal regulators have yet to reassess the potential health risks posed by the hazardous industrial byproduct to Jacksonville ...

When the Environmental Protection Agency last week ordered testing for dioxins after the recent train derailment and fire in East Palestine, Ohio, it acknowledged that residents could be facing a ...