A hazardous waste landfill in Wayne County is preparing to take 6,000 cubic yards of soil and concrete and 4,000 gallons of groundwater contaminated with elevated radiation from a site in New York ...

Natural resources that are extracted from the ground such as coal, oil, natural gas and other mineral ores contain various amounts of natural radioactivity. When these resources are extracted and ...

WAYNE COUNTY, Mich. — After four municipalities filed a lawsuit against Wayne Disposal Inc. on Monday, a Wayne County circuit court judge issued a temporary restraining order against any shipments of ...

Nuclear waste has become a kind of cultural shorthand for everything people fear about atomic power, from glowing green sludge to warnings that we are burdening distant descendants with our mistakes.

LANSING, MI — Legislation that would block the import of radioactive waste to Michigan is advancing in lame duck. On Thursday, Dec. 5, the Senate energy and environment committee voted 10-4 to advance ...

A hazardous waste facility in Van Buren Township can resume importing some radioactive waste from cleanup sites around the country, according to an order from a Wayne County judge, although waste from ...

WAYNE COUNTY, MI — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is sending lightly irradiated waste from upstate New York to Texas instead of Michigan after backlash from surrounding communities sparked a lawsuit ...