Plans for 800 homes to be built on contaminated land have been given council approval despite hundreds of objections.

Officials in Colombia hope phytoremediation is applied in other places damaged by mining, after seeing quick and dramatic results in Río Viejo and other sites.

Part IIA of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, 'Contaminated Land', was enacted in October 2001. This legislation requires the Local Authority to inspect its area for potentially contaminated land ...

Once it is complete, the land could be sold and developed. If you want to learn more, there will be a community meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 14th from Noon to 2:00 p.m. and then 4:30–6:30 p.m.

YPSILANTI, MI - Ypsilanti leaders allocated $7,500 to help people vacate homeless encampments on Water Street before work begins on the contaminated site. Ypsilanti’s City Council voted unanimously on ...

Initial tests found that, in some cases, the levels of PFOA in land close to the former chemical plant exceeded those ...

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AN ongoing China-aided landmine elimination project has cleared over 150sq km of land contaminated with mines and explosive remnants of war (ERWs) in Cambodia, benefiting about 2.5 million people, a ...

Food produced on farms whose land was contaminated with toxic “forever chemicals” may pose a risk to human health, according to a new draft report from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

When they mixed biochar into contaminated soil at a former tree nursery, DDT uptake by earthworms in the soil was halved. This method may enable the growing of certain crops on land that is ...

When they mixed biochar into contaminated soil at a former tree nursery, DDT uptake by earthworms in the soil was halved. This method may enable the growing of certain crops on land that is ...