At issue — how and where some toxic materials dredged from the river will be treated

Interview: Dr. Shereef Elnahal, under secretary for health, US Department of Veterans Affairs

Three months after the EPA announced the price tag for cleaning up a Superfund site in Newark, the company that bought polluter Diamond Alkali went ...

The Passaic River's poisoned. Could the guilty corporations be using federal bankruptcy laws to get out of paying for the cleanup? With anti-pollution regulations under ...

Environmentalists see the new EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt, as a wrecking ball aimed at the EPA’s heart. As Oklahoma’s attorney general, he sued the agency ...

What impact will President trump's Chief enforcer of environmental law have on New Jersey? Health officials are distributing potassium iodide pills. How are nuclear plant ...

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection is sending dollars from pollution settlements back into the community to build up the waterfront around the Lower ...

A holiday rush to pass measures on salary hikes and outside income for the state's top tier. Could one of them torpedo your newspaper? A ...

To clean up a Superfund site along the Passaic River, the EPA secured a $165 million settlement with Occidental Chemical. The agency believes that will ...

Prepare to kiss cheap Jersey gas goodbye. Lawmakers vote to raise the gas tax to pay for road and bridge repairs. Tough talk to dissolve ...

The EPA announced it will get dozens of companies to pay $1.4 billion to clean up toxic waste they dumped into the lower eight miles ...

It's one of the costliest Superfund cleanups in history. Polluters must pay more than $1 billion to dredge the Passaic River mud poisoned by mercury, ...

A 750-foot stretch of the Passaic River in Newark is less toxic than it was a year ago thanks to dioxin being removed.