Impacts How the U.S. betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster During the Cold War, the United States detonated 67 nuclear bombs on, in and above the Marshall Islands. The U.S. also conducted a dozen biological weapons tests and dumped 130 tons of irradiated soil, now vulnerable to rising seas.
Impacts High radiation levels found in giant clams near U.S. nuclear dump in Marshall Islands The discovery raises concerns the contamination is spreading from the dump site's tainted groundwater into the ocean and the food chain.
A controversial facility that would process plastic waste to be burned in steel mills has been cancelled
Multiple Houston-area oil and gas facilities that have violated pollution laws are seeking permit renewals
