Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tar balls have been on beaches across South Florida, including as far as Jaycee and Humiston beaches in Indian River County last ...

Dr. Elizabeth Yuko is a bioethicist and adjunct professor of ethics at Fordham University. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, CNN & Playboy.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Work will begin this summer to remove tens of thousands of tons of coal tar from a South Carolina river. The Congaree River in Columbia will remain open for kayakers and boaters, but ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Roughly 40,000 tons of toxic tar from the Congaree River in Columbia will start to be removed this summer after Dominion Energy received permits from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Project leaders of the Congaree River cleanup expect to finish the removal of toxic coal tar in the existing cofferdam by the end summer 2023. Tracy Glantz tglantz@thestate.com More than 5,000 tons of ...

Carpinteria city officials said recently that local beaches were “experiencing higher than normal rates” of tar and oil in the ocean and along the shoreline. Credit: City of Carpinteria photo From ...

Tar balls have been on beaches across South Florida, including as far as Jaycee and Humiston beaches in Indian River County last weekend. Where the sticky, semi-solid clumps of oil originated from is ...