For more than a decade, some residents of the tiny Richmond, Rhode Island, neighborhood of Canob Park drank and bathed using tap water that had been tainted by gasoline that leaked from storage tanks ...

An underground Hanford tank holding 123,000 gallons of radioactive waste appears to be leaking contaminated liquid into the ground, according to the Department of Energy. This is the second of Hanford ...

SPOKANE — After 19 years of work to safeguard nuclear waste dating from the Cold War, workers at Hanford have managed to remove virtually all of the radioactive waste from 16 aging underground steel ...

Leaking underground storage tanks remain a leading cause of groundwater pollution even after more than a half-million sites have been cleaned up. Roughly 81 million people live within a quarter-mile ...

After meeting with Energy Secretary Steven Chu Friday, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says at least six underground single-shell tanks at Hanford Nuclear Reservation in eastern Washington are leaking, not ...

An amendment added last month to the defense authorization bill will save taxpayers billions of dollars, take years off the time needed to clean up high-level radioactive tank waste at two U.S.

Q. Our home inspector informed us during a recent inspection on a house we're considering buying that there was an underground oil tank on the property, right next to the house. How serious is this, ...

The state Department of Environmental Resources will begin checking 60,000 underground storage tanks in Pennsylvania for leaks, the agency announced yesterday. About 25 owners and operators of ...