Industrial societies cannot easily eliminate dependency on oil as an energy source, but they can mitigate the harmful results of fossil fuel addiction. Besides air pollution and major oil spills, a ...

Images of damaged coastlines, oily sheens, containment booms and endangered wildlife are part of every offshore oil spill. And while a response team arrives and the clean up gets underway, researchers ...

A new government study provides a unique, national survey of off site commercial disposal practices, methods, and costs in the major oil and gas producing states of the US. In September 2006, Argonne ...

The fryer is not just the center of flavor and crispiness in many professional kitchens. It is also the place where operators can start to solve the problems of safety and rising labor costs. Used ...

More than a decade after regulators promised to improve reporting standards for this waste, an Inside Climate News ...

The effective implementation of IMO garbage regulations (MARPOL Annex V) on ships and in port reception facilities was the main focus of an IMO regional workshop on marine litter for the East Asian ...

An Allegheny Front investigation, with Inside Climate News, found drilling waste is sent to the same landfills as household ...

SELIYAROVO, Russia -- Russian oil companies are illegally disposing of millions of tons of contaminated drilling waste, a practice that is wreaking environmental havoc by polluting northern rivers ...

The IAEA is launching a new Coordinated Research Project (CRP) to increase international knowledge and drive progress towards testing deep borehole disposal (DBD) for intermediate and high level ...

A powdered clay used to clarify palm oil has been removed from Indonesia’s list of hazardous wastes, prompting warnings from environmental activists about an increase in dumping of untreated waste.