The EPA wants investors to take advantage of a tax benefit program focused on distressed communities, but says it first needs help from the IRS.

Dow Chemical Co. and two other manufacturers should bear the costs of cleaning up and monitoring drinking wells contaminated with 1,4-dioxane in central Long Island, a new lawsuit in the Eastern District of New York alleges.

Federal Superfund law doesn’t stand in the way of Montana landowners’ request for their own cleanup at a contaminated site, the landowners told the Supreme Court in a brief Oct. 15.

Experiments show that the ubiquitous chemical perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) could cause cancer in rats—and by extension in people—according to a new National Toxicology Program study.

Connecticut is putting the final touches on a sweeping program to test for “forever” fluorinated chemicals in food, packaging, air emissions, and compost.

CBS Corp. failed to shake off claims that its predecessor, Westinghouse Electric Corp., arranged for the disposal of hazardous wastes at a metal recycling site in upstate New York, in a ruling by the Northern District of New York.