hazardous waste

State Senator Darrin Camilleri (D-Trenton) introduced a bill last week that would tighten restrictions for hazardous waste facilities, including those licensed to take radioactive waste.

The federal government has stopped sending hazardous waste to a Michigan landfill from Ohio. It's the ripple effect after a judge intervened in a different matter.

A judge has — at least temporarily — stopped the delivery of World War II-era radioactive soil from New York to a Detroit-area landfill.

News of nuclear waste coming to a disposal facility in southeast Michigan is raising questions about how much say the public has in hazardous waste management in their communities. Here’s what you should know about the radioactive material coming to a Michigan hazardous waste disposal facility.

Lawmakers are hosting a town hall meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 4 to discuss public concerns about radioactive waste coming to a southeast Michigan facility.

A southeast Michigan waste disposal site will soon be home to nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project, the World War II effort to develop an atomic bomb.

According to EGLE, issues at the US Ecology South facility included “problems with waste screening procedures, failures of internal controls, and structural damage to waste treatment tanks and drum storage areas.”

Officials in southeastern Michigan were angry when a landfill and deep-injection wells near Detroit received contaminated soils and liquids from a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.

An initial public comment period ended with no comments submitted. But that was before a now-scuttled plan to bring in hazardous waste from an Ohio train derailment.

Some Detroit residents and environmental justice groups have filed a civil rights complaint against the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes,…