Parkgoers at Gansevoort Peninsula, home to the first public beach in Manhattan, which opened last month on an old landfill site along the Hudson River. (Deb Cohn-Orbach / Getty Images) Dede Freeman ...

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State lawmakers from Wayne County are outlining plans to prevent future loads of out-of-state radioactive or hazardous waste from being dumped in Michigan's most populous county, but they face ...

Since 2012, the Department of Energy has been batting around proposals to build a landfill for scraps of demolished buildings from Y-12, the site that contains low-level radiation from Manhattan ...

BELLEVILLE, MI — Michigan lawmakers and local officials are crying foul over plans to ship radioactive leftovers from the Manhattan Project to a landfill in Wayne County. Approximately 6,000 cubic ...

There is no telling what could be found during excavation of an old landfill beneath a crumbling parking lot on Manhattan's 12th Avenue — or in the swampy Meadowlands of North Jersey — during the dig ...

Dede Freeman and her daughter lounged in two blue Adirondack chairs on the beach under an umbrella as a copy of Nancy Allen’s “Renegade” blew open in the wind on the boardwalk nearby. Waves crashed ...

Construction of a new rail tunnel under the Hudson River has begun, with crews digging in Manhattan and the Meadowlands. Archaeologists are at the site to document discoveries, which could include ...