Pennsylvania Towns Fearing a Flood of Toxins
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LOWER POTTSGROVE, Pa. _ At the entrance to the property, a low brick building squats behind a chain-link fence, and leafy trees sway in the breeze.  There's nothing overtly menacing. But Donna Cuthbert is frightened.
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Almost five years after a cyanide spill from a gold mine in northern Romania travelled down the Tisza river in Hungary, leaving a trail of ecological destruction in its wake, local communities in the region ...
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In Columbia, Calif., fearless citizens risk dermatological disaster in what may be the countryâs strangest autumn ritual: the Annual Poison Oak Show.
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More than 30 years ago, an abandoned mine in Pennsylvania coal country was turned into a dump for toxic waste. Lots of it.
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Fears grow that serious environmental damage could be caused when a huge bonfire in County Antrim is lit.
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Contaminants ranging from farm runoff to the bug repellent DEET are putting pressure on some of the most pristine rivers in the southern U.S.
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Investigators searching for the source of an outbreak that sickened hundreds of travelers on a Lake Erie resort island are focusing on drinking water.
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The chemicals go down the drain, but in the environment they remain. Researchers have found that a complex brew of everyday compounds &#151; from products as ubiquitous as shampoo, bug spray and even that morning cup of coffee &#151; lingers in Minnesota waters even after they're showered off or dumped down the sink.
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TRENTON, N.J. - Flesh-eating bacteria cases, fatal pneumonia and life-threatening heart infections suddenly are popping up around the country, striking healthy people and stunning their doctors...
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There is a quiet battle for the future of this industrial town, one of America's most polluted places.
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By Judy Fahys, The Salt Lake Tribune  Feb. 6--The pollution that plagued northern Utah valleys last month left  Ann Waters, like many Utahns, disgusted and alarmed.
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A deadly chlorine leak has added momentum to local efforts to curb chemical hazards.
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The pollutant, which is a neurotoxin that can cause developmental problems in fetuses and young children, makes its way into the bloodstream when people eat contaminated fish.
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By John Castellucci, The Providence Journal, R.I.  Feb. 28--PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- The city's mills were once notorious for  discharging streams of pollutants into the Blackstone River, pouring toxic  materials into the soil and groundwater, poisoning the atmosphere with noxious  fumes.
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By Chris Pollock, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Jun. 2--There is such a thing as deadly heat, as the residents of Freemansburg found out firsthand over this week when more than 100 dead fish appeared at the northern end of the Lehigh Canal in the borough.
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About a third of all Americans live in counties that do not meet seven-year-old standards for microscopic particles of pollution that cause thousands of premature
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A string of deaths caused by Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare brain malady, in upstate New York has led a community to become increasingly concerned.