A preliminary injunction has confirmed – and expanded – a temporary restraining order preventing radioactive waste from being dumped at a Wayne County, Michigan, facility. The legal fight began in ...

Countries around the world are continually looking for ways to minimize their reliance on dirty energy sources such as coal, oil, and gas while still providing their citizens with all they need.

A federal court has ruled that a nuclear plant in New York can dump radioactive waste into the Hudson River, a decision that overrides a 2023 ban on releasing treated wastewater into the river. As ...

Note to readers • This story is made possible through a partnership between The Salt Lake Tribune and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. A Utah company wants to import massive ...

Gov. Ferguson warns of legal action if DOE delays Hanford waste treatment plan. Hanford’s vit plant faces uncertainty despite $30B investment and 3,000 workers. Washington state regulators report no ...

KENNEWICK – The deadline to glassify the first of the Hanford nuclear site’s 56 million gallons of radioactive waste will be extended under an agreement filed in federal court. Work to build the ...

RICHLAND – More than two decades after construction of the Hanford nuclear site’s massive vitrification plant began, the plant has taken one of the final steps to begin treating waste for disposal as ...

DOE awarded $89M in fiscal 2025 incentive fees to five Hanford site contractors. Contractors earned 90% to 96% of total fees; some parts hit 100%. H2C, HMIS, CPCCo, Navarro-ATL and outgoing tanks ...

A truck for Noble Environmental, the parent company of Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill in Belle Vernon, Pa., drives down a road on a rainy day. When John Quigley became the secretary of the ...