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County officials say they’d need millions of dollars to buy the equipment required to safely carry out rescue operations amid a CO2 pipeline rupture, which can suffocate people and stall engines. But who’s going to pay?

The worldwide production of plastic has doubled in the past 20 years worldwide. Plastic waste in the environment has grown too. Can a new global treaty help?

Federal regulators are considering changes to the safety requirements of carbon dioxide pipelines, three of which are proposed for Iowa.

THE TRAIN THAT DERAILED NEAR THE Ohio-Pennsylvania border in February 2023 was hauling mixed frozen vegetables. It was hauling malt liquor and semolina

Officials named three chemicals that were involved in the spill: butyl acrylate, ethyl acrylate, and methyl methacrylate.

Norfolk Southern hired the Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health to test the air in East Palestine homes. Experts say the testing it's conducting isn’t enough.

On Thursday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ordered rail operator Norfolk Southern to begin testing for dioxins.

Several experts called for a wider range of chemicals to be scanned for and recommended testing on surfaces as well

When officials decided on Feb. 6 to burn off the hazardous chemicals in Norfolk Southern’s derailed freight train in a “controlled burn” in East Palestine, Ohio, the fire released a plume [...]

When the train went off the tracks near where I grew up, I couldn’t stop thinking about a story my family used to tell.