One of the world's largest facilities to clean contaminated soil has opened in Farmingdale, beginning a new chapter of soil recycling to address the ground pollution that has plagued Long Island.

Soil contaminated with harmful perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) is difficult to clean, a complete remediation is often not possible. Perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkyl ...

The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract to clean up PFAS-contaminated soil at Eielson Air Force Base. The chemicalused in firefighting foams has been linked to serious health problems. And ...

Tony Schick / OPB/EarthFix Millions of acres of farm and orchard land in the United States have been converted to residential uses. In some cases, old pesticides could still be in the soil, even from ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- At homes and day care centers throughout Central Washington, children play in yards contaminated with lead and arsenic. The state’s Department of Ecology knows about this, and has for ...