In a downtown Tacoma parking lot behind a statue of a woman holding the city’s skyline in her hands sits an unusual sight. Since at least Sunday, 15 black barrels with neon-yellow toxic-waste symbols ...

PARADISE, MI — A yellow plastic barrel labeled “hazardous material” triggered an emergency response at Whitefish Point. Authorities taped-off part of the Lake Superior shoreline on Monday, Oct. 13 ...

Popcorn buckets have been getting more and more elaborate in recent years, and more expensive. While The Fantastic Four’s $80 Galactus bucket will break your wallet, The Toxic Avenger’s vessel of ...

Acres of tall grass, daisies and poison ivy cover hundreds of thousands of gallons of toxic waste buried for almost 50 years at the Tremont City Barrel Fill. Citizens have fought for the cleanup of ...

The caustic waste that leaked from the barrels created an extreme environment similar to that of hydrothermal vents, colonized by specialized bacteria that thrive in such harsh conditions. Reading ...