EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was produced in collaboration with The Sumter Item, an Uncovered partner. SUMMERTON — The sludge grew inch by inch with each passing year inside the water tank that fed a ...

Two environmental nonprofits and more than two dozen Wicomico County residents filed a lawsuit this week accusing local officials, a private landowner and an Arkansas-based waste company of illegally ...

The Wicomico County Council successfully introduced a bill that could severely limit, if not ban, sludge tanks in the county. Sludge tanks, also known as Dissolved Air Flotation tanks, are used by ...

Growing up in the old mill neighborhood of South Chicago, Marcelina Pedraza said she and her siblings would have loved to have access to Lake Michigan without needing to make a special a trip to ...

PITTSFIELD — An overflowing tank at the city wastewater treatment plant off Holmes Road spilled sludge into the Housatonic River early Tuesday morning. City leaders believe 1,200 gallons of wastewater ...