Oleg Zaitsev strides across a factory floor in Almaty, Kazakhstan as a row of workers sort through old circuit boards and ...

All of that went to landfills designated to take hazardous waste. The cleanup is now in phase two, which involves removing all the remaining debris. And it is not going very far at all — in fact ...

As much as 200,000 cubic yards of highly toxic waste was dumped into the pits and later eroded allowing for contaminants to leak into the San Jacinto River. In 2008, the site was added to the EPA ...

Oleg Zaitsev strides across a factory floor in Almaty, Kazakhstan as a row of workers sort through old circuit boards and ...

Residents who live near local landfills say the wildfire debris should be sent to hazardous waste landfills instead, fearing that toxic ash could drift into nearby communities during strong winds ...

State researchers found above normal levels of four types of cancer in communities near a toxic waste site. Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story.