The president exempted a copper smelter in Arizona from air-quality rules. An E.P.A. official guided the company that sought ...

More than 150 people attended a chaotic meeting Thursday night to hear about plans for a 25 percent increase in the recycling of toxic lead batteries at Quemetco’s facility in City of Industry, the ...

(Fixes typo in paragraph 7) By Lucy Hornby FENGXIAN, China, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Ask people about lead poisoning in the lush mountains of northwestern China's Shaanxi province, and nearly everyone can ...

Several new secondary lead projects were commissioned in 2025. From January to November, cumulative production of secondary crude lead reached 3.609 million mt, up 4% YoY. However, losses in secondary ...

"That thing is like a nuclear bomb for us," the 61-year-old says in a voice that seems to carry down the steep slope and into the corn fields that run to the smelter's fence. "There's just no saving ...

The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has completed an initial screening of suspected lead smelter sites located in Detroit. The screening study was commissioned to determine if there are ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (CN) - Doe Run Resources - the nation's largest lead producer - will spend $72 million to settle claims that it violated environmental laws. Doe Run will spend $65 million to ...

HERCULANEUM, Mo. - Doe Run is preparing to shut down its infamous lead smelting plant in Herculaneum. The closure is part of a 2010 settlement between the St. Louis based company and the Environmental ...

Tens of thousands of Omahans have lead in their yards at levels that experts say is dangerous, especially for kids. Growing momentum to do more cleanup in what’s already the nation’s largest ...

The owner of the nation's largest lead smelter has agreed to buy 160 nearby homes, the most dramatic step taken so far to protect the community's children from pollution. After six hours of ...